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Id: 85343
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Narada
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Owner: POWERMAN [...] cpan.org
Requestors: SREZIC [...] cpan.org
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Broken in: 1.3.6
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  Thu May 16 01:02:44 2013 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: GNU tar requirement
Narada cannot be installed on my system (FreeBSD) because: # running Build.PL GNU tar required Actually, on this system GNU tar is available: $ gtar --version tar (GNU tar) 1.22 Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Geschrieben von John Gilmore und Jay Fenlason. Although the default tar is a BSD tar: $ tar --version bsdtar 2.7.0 - libarchive 2.7.0 Anyway, is there a reason why GNU tar is required? Wouldn't normal tar work? Regards, Slaven
  Thu May 16 05:44:09 2013 POWERMAN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Thu May 16 01:02:44 2013, SREZIC wrote: Show quoted text
> Narada cannot be installed on my system (FreeBSD) because: > > # running Build.PL > GNU tar required > > Actually, on this system GNU tar is available: > > $ gtar --version > tar (GNU tar) 1.22
I never used *BSD, so I had no idea it can be named gtar. I'd like to see Narada working on *BSD, so I'll think about how to fix this. Show quoted text
> Anyway, is there a reason why GNU tar is required? Wouldn't normal tar work?
This module is actually bundle of utilities: some optional, but other mission-critical. One of latest is narada-backup tool, which uses -g option of GNU tar to make incremental backups. So, it looks like GNU tar is really required. Maybe bsdtar have similar functionality, but I'm not familiar with it.
  Thu May 16 05:44:09 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu May 16 05:44:09 2013 POWERMAN [...] cpan.org - Taken
  Sat Nov 23 09:35:47 2013 POWERMAN [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
1.3.8 (just uploaded) should work on *BSD (if gtar and bash available) - tested on FreeBSD-9.1.
  Sat Nov 23 09:35:47 2013 POWERMAN [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'