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Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 2014 19:10:00 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        freebsd hackers <hackers@freebsd.org>, freebsd current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: did tar(1) loose xz compression support in 11?
Message-ID:  <134A4303-3421-4A7B-9EB6-74D58B939217@kientzle.com>
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On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Chris H <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:

> Greetings,
> I'm currently testing 11. My build / install is from about 2 days ago.
> I generally use xz compression, when creating archives. But when I
> attempt the following:
>=20
> tar -cvJ --options xz:9 -f ./archive-name.tar.xz ./file
>=20
> it returns the following:
>=20
> tar: Undefined option: `xz:9'
>=20
> This has always worked in previous versions. Has the syntax changed,
> and the man(1) pages just haven't caught up?

I can=92t see any evidence in libarchive=92s source that this ever =
worked.

However, there was some work done recently to improve error reporting =
from the options processor.  It=92s quite possible that =97options xz:9 =
used to just be ignored and now it=92s reporting an error.

Tim




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