Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:48:47 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@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: <200803101348.47724.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20080310171551.Y70549@fledge.watson.org> References: <200803091349.m29Dn91v003746@repoman.freebsd.org> <200803101244.52073.jhb@freebsd.org> <20080310171551.Y70549@fledge.watson.org>
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On Monday 10 March 2008 01:16:29 pm Robert Watson wrote: > > 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. :-) Hmm. I guess I would consider it a user error to use gunzip on a bzip'd file (round peg, square hole sort of deal). However, that has more to do with the functionality (which I find surprising and perhaps a bit non-UNIX-ish) rather than this specific patch. -- John Baldwin
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