On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 01:39:00 -0700 Russ Cox <r...@swtch.com> wrote: > Thanks, but I'm happy with the current tar files. > They are a working CVS checkout, so that > people who use them can then use the recipes > in cvs(1) [9 man cvs] to update their trees. > The one you linked to is not a working anything checkout. > I haven't touched the tar file generation in over a year > so "work and trouble" is quite the exaggeration. > > I have changed the script that generates the tar files > to use the Plan 9 tar. Now there will be no SCHILY.* > extensions for GNU tar to whine about. Maybe that > will kill off this myth. > > Russ >
I usually blame distro patching, perhaps unfairly but I have had quite a bit of bother from distro patches. I haven't had any trouble unpacking p9p on source mage or debian, and looking through source mage 'spell' history I found gnu tar did need a patch for security reasons a couple of years ago. Perhaps some distro used a more agressive patch & never removed it. -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
