On 22 Jan 1999, Perry E. Metzger 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...

: 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.

pax(1) supports all the right options, as long as you use the short,
one-letter options.

As far as testing is concerned, I won't comment on that point.

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