Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch

[Dries Schellekens <gwyllion_(_at_)_ulyssis_(_dot_)_org>]

Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:29:17AM +0100, Samuel Ljungkvist wrote:
>
> > Since a few friends of mine whined enough about the lack of this feature 
> > in OpenBSD tar, I fixed it:
> >
> > http://triplefusion.net/pax-bzip2.patch
> >
> > This does all relevant changes that I can see, including manpages; patch 
> > filenames are relative to /usr/src with no directory stripping.
>
> Why would a base system application support an application that is not
> in base system?  Wouldn't that be a bug?

Will bzip2 ever be in the base system? I always tought it had a bad 
license (GPL), but this is BSDL (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). So 
that is not a problem...


Cheers,

Dries