On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Michael Core wrote:
> As you see this isn't true (any more). FYI, it won't work on i386 either.

No, I don't see... where's the announcement that binary compatibility
broke? (Note that Andreas said that the same procedure worked fine on
his i386 laptop).

> $ ldd `which tar`
> ldd: /usr/bin/tar: not dynamically linked
>
> I guess there's a reason.

Untaring base.tgz isn't an atomic operation.
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