Which "tar" should be used to pack the X11R6.8.0 sourcetarballs ?

[Roland Mainz]

Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Which "tar" version was used to pack the X11R6.8.0 tarballs ? I am just
> > asking because there are several incompatibilities between the various
> > versions of "tar" (many of them caused by GNU tar which has extensions
> > none of the other tar versions understand... ;-( ) and I'd like to avoid
> > the h*ll in which Mozilla.org resides in (their "tar.gz" tar archives
> > (created with GNU tar) can only properly be unpacked using "pax" or
> > "star" on non-GNU platforms).
> 
> Whatever you do, please do not replace the tarballs in-place if you
> choose to re-pack them.  That causes a lot of problems for systems such
> as BSD ports and their associated distfile mirroring, which check
> md5sums.

Erm... I wasn't even thinking about replacing any existing release
tarballs... I just wanted to figure out whether any special procedure
was done to ensure that the tarballs unpack properly on all platforms
(I'd like to make snapshots from the X11R6.8.2 release branch and like
to avoid that I screw-up the tar.gz archives in a similar way like
mozilla.org did...) - no need to worry... :)

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Bye,
Roland

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