id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
10549	About the pax utility	Pierre Labastie	Bruce Dubbs	"pax is a package archiver required by the LSB. Presently, we use an old version from the heirloom library. There is a more recent (and seemingly maintained) one at [http://www.mirbsd.org/pax.htm].

But looking at the documentation, tar can produce pax (posix 2001) compatible format. So maybe pax could be a shell script calling GNU tar with the appropriate options...

Note: the [http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html pax format] and its relationship with ustar and cpio formats.

Also, look at bsdtar instead of GNU tar...

This ticket is for reporting findings about those."	task	closed	low	8.3	BOOK	SVN	medium	fixed