Re: bad timestamps in tarball, was: Fixing the GNU tar requirement.

Greg Hudson wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 05:29, Tobias Ringström wrote:
>
>>Maybe it's time to use pax instead. I just checked, and it does not
>>have the same problem. I don't know how common pax is, but it is *the*
>>POSIX packager.
>
> I think it's pretty common at this point (Solaris 8 certainly has it).

It's a standard tool on Redhat/Fedora Linux and Solaris, and for Debian
it's just an "apt-get install pax" away, so I've commited a change to
dist.sh in r9079 to use pax instead of cpio.

/Tobias

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Received on Tue Mar 16 16:12:51 2004