Re: Building subversion server: a puzzle

"Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor)" <wadswore@fhu.disa.mil> writes:
> > Maybe the subversion release tarballs should be built with the
> > '--posix' option (to GNU tar)?
>
> If it doesn't impact anything else, I'm +1 on using the most compatible tar
> format... Why not?

I'm still unclear on exactly what the incompatibility was. Why did
Sun tar fail on a tarball created by GNU tar without --posix? (Or do
we just know that "it works" if you unpack with GNU tar?)

-K

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Received on Mon Nov 17 16:40:33 2003