docs/archives/ interoperability considerations
Action items from the recent mailing list thread Reproducing tarballs under various toolchains:
-
Document in docs/archives/ that FreeBSD tar supports --owner and --group under the names --uid/--uname and --gid/--gname. -
Discuss on the site the desirability of being able to reproduce any particular tarball using a different tar
implementation than the one that originally generated that tarball. -
(not directly related to the website) Send to libarchive patches implementing GNU tar compatibility flags --owner
,--group
, and/or send to GNU tar patches implementing BSD tar compatibility flags--uid
,--uname
,--gid
,--gname
.
Edited by Soumya Chopra