On 22 June 2011 02:28, Bob Friesenhahn <bfrie...@simple.dallas.tx.us> wrote: > On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Russ Allbery wrote: >> >> The problem, of course, being that pax probably isn't available, which >> makes it hard for a default choice. > > As per WikiPedia: > > "Despite being standardized in 2001 by IEEE, as of 2010, pax enjoys > relatively little popularity and penetration rate. > > pax is required to be present in all conformant systems by Linux Standard > Base since version 3.0 (released on July 6, 2005),[2] but so far few Linux > distributions ship and install it by default. However, most distributions > include pax as a separately installable package." > > I find pax under Solaris, FreeBSD, & Apple's OS X but not (by default on) > Ubtuntu Linux.
FYI, GNU tar added pax support in 2004 [1] Anyway, a change to ustar would be enough for us. Should I file a bug for this? Best regards [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format) (See problems and limitations) -- Javier Jardón Cabezas
