Re: Fixing the GNU tar requirement.

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 09:06:15AM +0100, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> Ben Reser writes:
> ...
> >I recommend using GNU cpio. I've tested the output with Solaris and GNU
> >tar and it works perfectly. If everyone is okay with this I'll post a
> >patch to effect this change.
>
> Did you check this out? :-)
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/star/

Yup (One of the links I provided was to a README file included with star
in fact). I'm guessing pretty much everyone has cpio. star would be
another dependency the release manager would need. I'd rather avoid
that.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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