Re: CVS commit: src/share/mk

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

On 14/11/2019 05:47, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 03:53:02PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > i'm not happy about this change.  i wish that bsdtar was
> > fixed to not be unfriendly, because it mostly is a better
> > implementation.  just these edge cases are rather ..
> > problematic yet these issues are being ignored or
> > rejected as being irrelevant.
>
> Me neither, especially as we now effectively have different command line
> args passed from sysinst to tar depending on the tar invocation (and this
> is all hard coded). I'll have to make it a define in sysinst depending
> on the seleted tar variant :-/.

Just for the record, I don't really care about different cmd line args, 
symlinks and security involved.

My expectation is that a modern NetBSD tar can extract a modern tar 
archive from other sources.

If it cannot do this we have failed.

Roy