[pacman-dev] tar/bsdtar switch

[Dan McGee]

On 7/14/07, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/13/07, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So we revised makepkg so it doesn't rely on gnutar any longer...any
> > one want to do the same for the other tools, such as repo-add/remove,
> > etc.?
>
> To make it easier - what did you have to change? What are the common
> things we've been using that are gnu extensions?

Ha- probably not that much. I didn't mean for this email to sound
monumental. s/tar/bsdtar/g will probably get most of it. I don't think
we used any GNU specific extensions.

What we did to makepkg:
http://code.toofishes.net/gitweb.cgi?p=pacman.git;a=commitdiff;h=24c41f5190974e68444466d0d8563dbe9ab06768;hp=5a3b59583740c033a5e27b61c3c38bebfd580acc

-Dan