From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 19:53:25 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E54B61065670 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:53:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A248FC14 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4EC95AB4.DA9.2161 ; Authuser web; 20 Nov 2011 14:53:24 EST Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:53:23 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Matthew Seaman Message-ID: <20111120195323.GA17436@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:53:26 -0000 According to Matthew Seaman on Sun, 11/20/11 at 02:34: > > bsdtar(1) -- accept no substitutes. Well, actually, it's libarchive > which bsdtar is built on top of. It automatically recognizes most > compression formats and most types of data archive -- including a few > that you probably wouldn't have thought of in that context. Try running > it against a .iso CDRom image. When I ran "man tar" it gave me the bsdtar(1) man page - never much noticed that before... :-) Holy crap! I had no idea: freebsd% tar tvf FreeBSD-9.0-RC1-i386-dvd1.iso | wc -l tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @121dac0 (usr/sbin/chown) 75319296 < 447330304 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1285180 (usr/share/man/man3/getlogin_r.3.gz) 498898944 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270640 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_CLR.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270700 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_ISSET.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12707c0 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_SET.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1270880 (usr/share/man/man3/FD_ZERO.3.gz) 499187712 < 499906560 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12449c0 (usr/share/man/man5/malloc.conf.5.gz) 500283392 < 505104384 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12476c0 (usr/share/man/man8/inetd.8.gz) 505382912 < 506322944 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @1241480 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Oslo) 521547776 < 521877504 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @121d880 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Istanbul) 521633792 < 521877504 tar: Ignoring out-of-order file @12413c0 (usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Nicosia) 521676800 < 521877504 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors. 17817 Everything is there and listed. Amazing! You learn something every day. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|