Re: portability as a goal for debian?

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
>Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>>OK. But perhaps gcc isn't a good example; personally I couldn't even
>>name any of the gcc extensions. On the other hand, the improvements
>>in tar and make are much more obvious (to me, anyway).
>
>Especially when you consider OpenBSD tar; at least on the OpenBSD box we
>have at work, we had to give up and install GNU tar on the grounds that
>the standard tar on the system could only write old-format archives.

*sigh* FUD alert. Of course, I meant BSDI tar.

BUGS
     A case can be made that tar should write standard archives by
     default, rather than old-style archives.
          
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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]