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[Benedikt Meurer]

Olivier FOURDAN wrote:
> Yeah, it's what I'm planning once I have some free time, but in the meantime,
 > I quickily checked and indeed, pax is available on most Unix platforms 
(Solaris,
 > Aix, HPUX,...), and even older ones....

Yeah, thats the nice thing about pax, its available anywhere and theres 
(atleast to some degree) only one pax, unlike the various tar flavours. Most 
pax implementations also offer "pax-as-tar" and "pax-as-cpio" modes where the 
pax binary acts like "tar" or "cpio", which is very nice, since you need only 
one archiver for all formats.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not against tar. A dependency on GNU tar should be ok 
as well. My only complaint was that Olivier assumed that "tar" is GNU tar. 
Nevertheless, I'd vote for pax since it obsoletes the old Unix archivers and 
its available on every Unix system in a standard form, not GNU pax, HP pax, 
Solaris pax, whatever...

> The fact that recent Linux distro
 > don't include it doesn't prove anything (except that these distro aren't
 > totally POSIX compliant :) ).

I recently realised that pax was missing from Gentoo when I wanted to backup 
some stuff, but it took me about 2 minutes to install pax from source on the 
system. So, it should be no problem. From what I heared is that the major 
Linux distros already ship pax. I think the other distros will follow sooner 
or later, and maybe some day the tar nightmare will come to an end :-)

And just in case too many users complain about missing pax, we could still use 
install.

> Cheers,
> Olivier.

regards,
Benedikt

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