Re: increasingly packages need gtar or pax-with-libarchive

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 10:55:53AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Earlier, I thought bsdtar didn't work, but today it does.   So I would
> amend point 5 to say "use bsdtar always on NetBSD <= 8", which feels
> like a much more reasonable solution from the BSD point of virw :-)

Forcing bsdtar for everything on NetBSD <= 8 seems like the best solution
that avoids most future problems.

Ultimately with less people testing these older configurations any
USES_SPECIAL_TAR_STUFF variable will be subject to rot.