Subject: Re: gtar update ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/11/2002 16:16:55
Here is a newer gtar-base:

http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/packages/pkgsrc-archivers-gtar-base.tar.gz

It uses ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz

Has a couple patches from recent security advisory and from Red Hat's
fixed version. (I need to test again...)

And I slightly updated manual page. How was it made before? texi-to-nroff
tool?

It installs usr/pkg/info/tar.info so it conflicts with gtar-info-1.12.

Maybe gtar-info-1.12 isn't needed?

Also, it may need DESCR updated.

I made new PLIST.NetBSD, but not the other PLISTs.

It also installed libexec/grmt -- but no man page.

   Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. We need to get rid of this forced "g" prefix; it should be customized
via mk.conf. I send-pr'd about GNU_PROGRAM_PREFIX idea.