Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:46:06 +0000 (GMT) From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: William Bulley <web@umich.edu> Subject: Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2? Message-ID: <20111120104606.CB21D1065672@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20111119223633.GD13594@itcom245.staff.itd.umich.edu>
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from William Bulley <web@umich.edu>:
> Possible, but unlikely. Plus I doubt that 'tar -tvf base.txz' without a
> pipe having an "xzcat(1)" in front of the "tar(1)" command. Maybe there
> is an "xz" option for tar(1) during extraction mode, but my tar(1) man
> page doesn't list any, sigh... It does list -y and -z options for other
> compression/decompression modes, hmmm.... :-(
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.
Tom
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