Subject: Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc
To: None <pkgsrc-changes@NetBSD.org>
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@britannica.bec.de>
List: pkgsrc-changes
Date: 09/09/2007 02:23:43
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 02:16:16AM +0200, Roland Illig wrote:
> My choice of using pax was intentional, because I don't know if tar 
> supports the -z flag, and gzip isn't in USE_TOOLS per default.

gzip is installed as well as it is a dependency of pbulk.

We install our pax on all platforms but NetBSD, so yes -- tar has -z.
Otherwise it should be removed from tools.${PLATFORM}.mk.

Joerg