From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 20 19:56:33 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 679B2106566C for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:56:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from web@umich.edu) Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D3A8FC13 for ; Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: FROM itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu (itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu [141.213.135.249]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4EC95B6F.27D84.32500 ; Authuser web; 20 Nov 2011 14:56:31 EST Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:56:30 -0500 From: William Bulley To: Thomas Mueller Message-ID: <20111120195630.GB17436@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu> Mail-Followup-To: Thomas Mueller , 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 19:56:33 -0000 According to Thomas Mueller 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 ----------------------------------------->|