Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:21:41 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <20050404002141.2819f386@dolphin.local.net> In-Reply-To: <200503261636.j2QGa2ZI055013@gate.bitblocks.com> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <200503261636.j2QGa2ZI055013@gate.bitblocks.com>
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On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:36:02 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com> wrote: > What is the status of this bug? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76294 > > [summary: certain gzipped tar files can't be untarred > correctly with -z flag but work fine if with gzcat|tar xvf -] > > Seems to me this bug needs to be fixed in bsdtar before gtar > is removed (note: gtar does not have this problem). In > particular if zlib is buggy, either it needs to be upgraded > or bsdtar needs to run compressed files through gzip. > > Thanks! > > -- bakul In a similar vein, I just discovered that KDE's "ark" can no longer properly extract gzipped tar files: tar: unrecognized option `--use-compress-program=gunzip' Any chance of adding this option to bsdtar? -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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