On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 12:31:49PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > could you tell me from where you got your patch-aa ?
> 
> I think it was based on patches from
> http://www.security.nnov.ru/files/archive/tar-1.13.19.patch

OK, I added it in the patch header

> 
> Please note that this was discussed a little via PR 18578. Also a few
> emails were exchanged off-list.

Yes, I looked at it, but didn't find references to the patches.


> 
> > No, it was done from the NetBSD's tar.1.
> > I'll use the redhat man page enventually
> 
> Okay.
> 
> > > Maybe gtar-info-1.12 isn't needed?
> >
> > No, we need two separate packages, because gtar is one of the first
> > packages to install on Solaris, and texinfo isn't available yet.
> > gtar-base shouldn't install the info file.
> 
> Thanks for the explanation.
> 
> > > It also installed libexec/grmt -- but no man page.
> >
> > This also should not be installed I think.
> 
> I don't use it. Maybe some do. Maybe another package.

gtar should be able to use /etc/rmt without problems. Nobody complained for
the lack of libexec/grmt for now.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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