From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 26 11:22:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [194.222.196.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A531137B424; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 11:22:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3QIML324417; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:22:21 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3QINUM63571; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:23:30 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200104261823.f3QINUM63571@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Brian Somers , Kris Kennaway , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, audit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: pax(1) gzip functionality In-Reply-To: Message from "David O'Brien" of "Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:00:37 PDT." <20010426100037.C84210@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:23:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 04:42:44PM +0100, Brian Somers wrote: > > > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 02:54:25AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > Please review the following code from OpenBSD; it adds -z and -Z > > > > options to pax(1) to gzip(1) the archives created. > > > > > > Sigh. They could have generalized this just a little and supported Bzip2 > > > at the same time. Please let me know after you commit this so I can do > > > this. > > > > Is this necessary ? What's the problem with using a pipe ? Isn't > > this the same argument as the xargs one we've just gotten through ? > > What's wrong with: > tar cf - foo | gzip >foo.tar.gz > gzip -dc foo.tar.gz | tar xf - > > Someone deemed them too inconvient for the number of times they are > invoked. I'm not going to enter that discussion, but _if_ gzip support > is added, I feel bzip2 support should be added to be orthogonal with > today's uses. Agreed. > -- > -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message