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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness
From: |
Sergey Poznyakoff |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Apr 2004 18:26:55 +0300 |
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Sergey> able to produce correct 'ustar' archives. Whatever
> Sergey> options you give to previous versions of GNU tar, the
> Sergey> produced archives will deviate from the standard.
>
> Ouch! Is that a `will always deviate' or a `can deviate in some
> conditions (like -o does)'?
It is "will always deviate".
> So as I sees it the question is: in this conditions, will
> old-GNU-tar-without-o deviate more from ustar than
> old-GNU-tar-with-o deviates from V7?
The "distance" between the produced archive and the required
format will be almost the same in both cases. The main difference
when using -o is that archives produced with this option do not
contain symbolic ownership information (usernames/group names).
Regards,
Sergey
- AMTAR brokenness, Roger Leigh, 2004/04/01
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/15
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Roger Leigh, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Eric Sunshine, 2004/04/18
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Gunnar Ritter, 2004/04/19