On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Simon Burge wrote:

: At the moment, a lot of the MD stuff in sysinst uses the gtar options
: --unlink and --one-file-system.  pax doesn't seem to support these yet,
: so install will be potentially broken at the moment...

pax's default (and incidentally, our gtar's default now) is --unlink, and
pax *does* support the gtar short option -l, which means --one-file-system.
(This is in pax->tar compatibility mode.)

Depending on the options actually used, sysinst could conceivably call pax
directly, as --one-file-system equates to pax's -X.

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