Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism

["David Starner" <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org>]

> If you think about CPIO, keep in mind that it is an outdated format with
> POSIX-200x. TAR is the only format that is extendable without end and
witout
> breaking backward compatibility.

And what about PAX, the POSIX compromise?

> .... of course you should not use GNUtar because it is not POSIX and
because
> it breaks basic TAR rules due to heavy design bugs.

But Debian doesn't have any other tar's besides OpenBSD Pax.

> Star is POSIX compliant: ftp://ftp.fokus.gmd.de/pub/unix/star

If it's an issue, why hasn't it already been packaged? By you if no one
else?

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David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org