From: Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <jca@wxcvbn.org>
Subject: Re: Switch tar(1) to use pax as default write format (Was: Re: tar(1) write format selection)
To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 23:47:14 +0200

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 11:32:44PM +0200, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> GNU tar defaults to "gnu".  ("posix" aka "pax" will be the default
> format for future versions.)

This exists in GNU tar docs since at least de5ec134a (2004-05-05).
One may doubt it will happen any time soon.

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jca