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Date:      Mon, 04 Apr 2005 22:21:34 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@BitBlocks.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system
Message-ID:  <4252205E.5050202@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200504041614.j34GEDkA006379@gate.bitblocks.com>
References:  <200504041614.j34GEDkA006379@gate.bitblocks.com>

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Bakul Shah wrote:
>>>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 -]
> ...  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!:-)

Guilty as charged!  ;-)  I'm working on an update to
our libz, but it's diverged a bit from the original
sources so it is taking me a while to figure out how
best to update it.

Given my limited time, this may not make it into 5.4
but will make 5.5 for sure!  ;=/

Tim



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