On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 03:07:38AM +0000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> 
> Module Name:	pkgsrc
> Committed By:	jlam
> Date:		Mon May 16 03:07:38 UTC 2005
> 
> Modified Files:
> 	pkgsrc/mk: bsd.pkg.mk
> 	pkgsrc/mk/defaults: mk.conf
> 	pkgsrc/mk/tools: replace.mk tools.BSDOS.mk tools.DragonFly.mk
> 	    tools.FreeBSD.mk tools.NetBSD.mk tools.OpenBSD.mk
> 
> Log Message:
> Change the EXTRACT_USING_PAX defined/undefined option into a EXTRACT_USING
> which can take multiple values -- "pax" or "gtar".  The default value
> of EXTRACT_USING is "pax", which more closely matches reality since
> before, we were using bootstrap "tar" for ${GTAR} and it was actually
> pax-as-tar.  Also, stop pretending pax-as-tar from the bootstrap kit
> or on NetBSD is GNU tar.  Lastly, in bsd.pkg.extract.mk, note whether
> we need "pax" or "gtar" depending on what we need to extract the
> distfiles.

Many, many thanks for this - we've needed this for a long time.

Take care,
Alistair