Summary: | Add compatability link "gtar" pointing to GNU tar | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alexander Skwar <askwar> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system> |
Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | bsd+disabled |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | 2005.0 | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=877645 | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Alexander Skwar
2005-05-24 09:19:49 UTC
No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119) bsd team: useful for you ? we only install the 'g' symlink on GNU systems when it's common, so we have 'gawk' and 'gmake', but not 'gsed' or 'gm4' I'm using bsd tar for portage without problems at the moment, it has more features than gnu tar anyway, but I think gtar can be helpful when it depends on some syntax strictly gnu... (In reply to comment #1) > No, star shouldn't install a binary named tar or app-arch/tar and app-arch/star > should block each other. (problematic, see Bug 33119) Hm? I don't really care that star installs as /usr/bin/tar. With this bug, I'd like to see a symlink /usr/bin/gtar -> /bin/tar or maybe /bin/gtar -> /bin/tar being introduced. So, even if there were no /usr/bin/tar -> /usr/bin/star symlink, I'd like to see a gtar symlink. checked with fedora and they have gmake and gtar symlinks in their standard, so dropping in a gtar symlink should be ok |