tar/psx/bsdtar on CentOS 8

[Chris Johns]

On 25/2/20 5:09 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi
> 
> CentOS 8 does not have a package for pax. It does have a package for bsdtar. 
> 
> Is bsdtar sufficient for the tests? I don't call the precise issue we favored
> pax over
> GNU tar.
> 
> If so, could testsuites/libtests/configure.ac <http://configure.ac> accept both?
> 
> Pax appears to be used only for the dl* and tar* tests. I had thought about it
> not being a hard fail but those seem like bad tests to drop out.

Does RTEMS understand the standard tar format? If PAX format is needed does your
tar accept `--posix` or `--format pax`. I am happy for a change like this but it
may only work on FreeBSD ;)

Chris