Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1999 19:30:16 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bzip2/tar/pkg_add (was Re: cvs commit: ports/news/tin ...) Message-ID: <199903280130.TAA94142@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903271949000.25868-100000@picnic.mat.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903271949000.25868-100000@picnic.mat.net>
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On 27 March 1999 at 19:57, Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> wrote: > I'd like to have bzcat, bunzip and bzip, Send patches for the port. bunzip2 and bzip2 are there already, but not bzcat. > and let tar be intelligent > about which program to use to handle things. I would not want to modify > the gzip/gunzip stuff, it's GNU, tar is GNU also. [snip] > No new flags to tar for decompression. For compression > only, let tar depend on: > > 1) an added flag, for what kind of compression OR > 2) environmental var, TAR_COMPRESSOR, which would be a path to > the compressor to use, OR > 3) a compiled in default, if no flag AND no env var is available. > > This would be the order checked. I think this would violate POLA. > don't modify zcat. Add a bzcat. I don't intend to modify zcat, but to replace it. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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