tech-pkg: building binary packages fails on Darwin/MacOS X

Subject: building binary packages fails on Darwin/MacOS X
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/18/2003 13:44:09

Maybe OSX/Darwin should use gnutar or pax instead of their built-in tar?

   -- MW

===> Building binary package for postfix-2.0.14
tar: illegal option -- T
usage: tar -{txru}[cevfbmopswzBHLPXZ014578] [tapefile] [blocksize] 
[replstr] [-C directory] file1 f
ile2...
/usr/pkg/sbin/pkg_create: tar command failed with code 256
Creating package /Users/mw/pkgsrc/packages/All/postfix-2.0.14.tgz