<div dir="ltr"><div>Jeff.. try the stuff below and let us know.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 9:12 PM Chris Johns <<a href="mailto:chrisj@rtems.org">chrisj@rtems.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 25/2/20 5:09 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
> <br>
> CentOS 8 does not have a package for pax. It does have a package for bsdtar. <br>
> <br>
> Is bsdtar sufficient for the tests? I don't call the precise issue we favored<br>
> pax over<br>
> GNU tar.<br>
> <br>
> If so, could testsuites/libtests/<a href="http://configure.ac" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">configure.ac</a> <<a href="http://configure.ac" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://configure.ac</a>> accept both?<br>
> <br>
> Pax appears to be used only for the dl* and tar* tests. I had thought about it<br>
> not being a hard fail but those seem like bad tests to drop out.<br>
<br>
Does RTEMS understand the standard tar format? If PAX format is needed does your<br>
tar accept `--posix` or `--format pax`. I am happy for a change like this but it<br>
may only work on FreeBSD ;)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Long ago, I swear it was just tar but something broke on some host. My vague recollection</div><div>is very large user ids in a Mac networked environment. But the ustar format allows 8 octets</div><div>for user ids.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06">https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/pax.html#tag_20_92_13_06</a> </div><div><br></div><div>That may not have tripped the switch to pax except that pax is the POSIX name of the<br></div><div>command.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking for the RHEL 8 release notes about this, I found </div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index">https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/considerations_in_adopting_rhel_8/index</a> </div><div><br></div><div>which indicates it moved to the "CodeReady Linux Builder repository" along with a <br></div><div>number of other packages. That is in the PowerTools repo for CentOS.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://serverfault.com/questions/997896/how-to-enable-powertools-repository-in-centos-8">https://serverfault.com/questions/997896/how-to-enable-powertools-repository-in-centos-8</a> </div><div><br></div><div>Hopefully it works. Jeff will let us know.</div><div><br></div><div>--joel</div><div><br></div><div> <br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Chris<br>
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