4.4b2 works fine on OpenBSD 3.9 !

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Jul 12 16:16:49 CEST 2006


Colossus wrote:
>>Sorry for this, but as OpenBSD doesn't use GNU tar, the switchs are not
>>the same.. I get this when i try to create/extract a tar.gz archive.
> 
>>see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=tar for the description
>>of available options... i suppose i should try to patch the helper
>>scripts Xarchiver uses.
> 
> Thank you for the link. I will try to support openbsd tar.

I'd suggest to either depend on gtar, or use libarchive instead.
Otherwise you'll run into trouble supporting all kinds of tar
implementations.

> Thanks,
> Giuseppe

Benedikt



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