Bug#174308: star should become standard tar
Moin Bjoern!
Bjoern Jacke schrieb am Thursday, den 26. December 2002:
> Package: general
>
> star
> (http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/star.html)
> should become the standard tar on Debian.
Not till it begins to emulate GNU tar's default behaviour.
# star cvf x CVS
a CVS directory
a CVS/Root 42 bytes, 1 tape blocks
a CVS/Repository 2 bytes, 1 tape blocks
a CVS/Entries 2 bytes, 1 tape blocks
a CVS/Entries.Log 39 bytes, 1 tape blocks
star: 1 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 10240 bytes = 10.00k).
# star cvf x CVS
star: Will not overwrite non empty plain files in compat mode.
All scripts relying on tar's method of overwritting file, or using its
simple filelist output, would break terribly.
> GNU tar has lots of known bugs and it's just ugly. No one is able to
> maintain GNU tar right because it's an ugly hack, not beiing POSIX
> compliant and not even generating correct tar archives by default.
> star does all this better and has ACL support additionally ...
That are all things JS keeps saying and though, 99% of users are
happy with GNU tar.
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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