On Feb 20, 2015, at 11:59 AM, Charles Diza <chd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chuck is right; MacOSX has (always, I believe) shipped bsdtar.
MacOS X switched to bsdtar around 10.6. Earlier versions shipped with gnutar, but that was before the move to GPLv3 in gnutar v1.18. > Perhaps your tar is from Homebrew or Macports? Indeed, a reasonable guess...I believe that Sean was running a gnutar built from such a system, so the bug report was apropos to this list. Regards, -- -Chuck
