Re: LSB Spec 1.0 Criticism
In article <[🔎] 044f01c104ea$7c70a520$ae4efea9@dvdeug>,
David Starner <dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org> wrote:
>> If you think about CPIO, keep in mind that it is an outdated format with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.
man cpio
cpio supports the following archive formats: binary, old
ASCII, new ASCII, crc, HPUX binary, HPUX old ASCII, old
tar, and POSIX.1 tar.
Mike.
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