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Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2005 09:14:13 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com>
cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system 
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> > What is the status of this bug?
> > 
> >     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76294
> > 
> > [summary: certain gzipped tar files can't be untarred
> > correctly with -z flag but work fine if with gzcat|tar xvf -]
....
> 
> In a similar vein, I just discovered that KDE's "ark" can no longer
> properly extract gzipped tar files:
> 
> tar: unrecognized option `--use-compress-program=gunzip'
> 
> Any chance of adding this option to bsdtar?

This is a different issue.  --use-compress-program is not
supported by bsdtar while -z is supported but broken for
certain inputs.  One would like see supported features work
as advertised but this bug has been around for a while and I
have to assume the fix is difficult or whoever is fixing does
not have enough free time.  Both are perfectly understandable
reasons!:-)

In this case may be it is easier to fix the port to use gtar?