Re: [bu-users] Um... Pax?

[Stefan M. <st...@mo...>]

On Sun, May 28, 2006 at 11:16:08PM -0500, Vincent Stemen wrote:
> The different linux distributions seem to use there own versioning for
> it.  I thought most of them already included pax.  I am currently

I think Redhat and Debian do, I'm not sure about the rest. I guess SuSE does
as the source I have was a port for SuSE.

Of course I have to be awkward and roll my own source distro :)

> Interestingly, after getting your email, I looked at the rcs id strings
> on the Debian Linux pax, using the strings command (don't seem to have
> the ident utility on Debian and haven't figured out what package to
> install to get it), and it is apparently actually a pretty old version
> from OpenBSD.  It shows "$OpenBSD: pax.c,v 1.14 1998/09/20".

I couldn't find ident on my system either, but the my version has the
following (nearest equivalent) from "strings".

$Id: vis.c,v 1.2 2005/07/29 07:59:12 kukuk Exp $

I don't think it's a major issue and it does seem to work with the version of
pax I've installed - you might want to mention the pax dependancy in the docs
though, maybe with a link to source code.

Of course finding the source code is complicated by the fact that there is a 
set of Linux Kernel patches called PaX so search terms like "pax source linux"
turn up a lot of stuff you didn't want - however the link I gave in my 
previous missive should do the job.

Cheers

Stef
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