From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 4 05:21:51 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 919F516A4CE; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 05:21:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5C843D31; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 05:21:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Received: from dolphin.local.net ([68.11.70.216]) by lakermmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP <20050404052148.EDAU29182.lakermmtao01.cox.net@dolphin.local.net>; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 01:21:48 -0400 Received: from dolphin.local.net (localhost.local.net [127.0.0.1]) by dolphin.local.net (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j345LkwP067307; Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:21:48 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from conrads@cox.net) Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 00:21:41 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" To: Bakul Shah 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; amd64-portbld-freebsd6.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Tim Kientzle cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 05:21:51 -0000 On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:36:02 -0800, Bakul Shah 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 -- "In Unix veritas"