FC4 tar is out of control

[Gérard Milmeister]

On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:19 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> Gérard Milmeister wrote:
> 
> > I don't know a solution for tar, but maybe you should switch to star
> > (also part of FC4), which allows much more control.
> 
> I don't think star is present when you boot in rescue mode,
> making it difficult to do a bare metal recovery of the system.
If you make the star archive GNU tar compatible, you combine the
convenience of creation using star and the compatibility with tar during
rescue mode.
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