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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:16:29 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/gzip gzip.c
Message-ID:  <20080310171551.Y70549@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200803101244.52073.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <200803091349.m29Dn91v003746@repoman.freebsd.org> <200803101244.52073.jhb@freebsd.org>

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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, John Baldwin wrote:

>>     usr.bin/gzip         gzip.c
>>   Log:
>>   Teach gunzip that .tbz and .tbz2 uncompress to .tar, in a manner similar
> to
>>   its existing understanding that .tgz uncompresses to .tar.
>>
>>   MFC after:      3 days
>>   PR:             121519
>>   Submitted by:   Ighighi <ighighi at gmail.com>
>>
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.6       +2 -0      src/usr.bin/gzip/gzip.c
>
> So are we creating packages for ports that are compressed with gzip but 
> using bzip names?  Otherwise, gunzip should probably fail on a '.tbz' 
> because it isn't a gzipped file (unless gunzip auto-invokes bunzip2 or some 
> such feature that I'm not aware of).

gunzip is smarter than you think. :-)

Robert N M Watson
Computer Laboratory
University of Cambridge



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