Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:56:30 -0500 From: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <20111120195630.GB17436@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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According to Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> on Sun, 11/20/11 at 05:46: > > It looks like tar in extraction mode automatically recognizes xz > compression in the file to be extracted from. > > Section from the man page for tar in FreeBSD 9.0-RC1: > > -J, --xz > (c mode only) Compress the resulting archive with xz(1). In > extract or list modes, this option is ignored. Note that, unlike > other tar implementations, this implementation recognizes XZ com- > pression automatically when reading archives. You see? That just goes to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to "get there from here" - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@umich.edu 72 characters width template ----------------------------------------->|
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