Subject: Re: CVS commit: src
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/22/1999 13:55:30
Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> 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,

That's not the point. The install scripts are now broken. He should
have checked to make sure he didn't break things BEFORE doing the
commit, not after.

I would prefer that we NOT switch what we are using as tar(1) until
pax(1) supports all the right options so the change is transparent.

Perry