Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 15:07:23 +0200 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <200504051507.27511.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <42521824.1030009@kientzle.com> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050404002141.2819f386@dolphin.local.net> <42521824.1030009@kientzle.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 06:46, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I recommend submitting a change to the "ark" maintainers suggesting > they use "-z" (which is implemented by many different tar programs) > rather than the gtar-specific --use-compress-program=gunzip. I already replied to Conrad on kde@freebsd.org, but to cut things short: ark (in the kdeutils3 port) has been patched to invoke "gtar" instead of "tar" on recent 5.x and newer for a long time now (pretty much ever since tar stopped being gtar). Conrad hasn't replied yet, but I'm assuming he as either a symlink or an alias in place that maps gtar to tar - which isn't recommendable. :) Now, what ark does is not calling --use-compress-programm=gunzip, it calls --use-compress-program=<uncompress|gunzip|bunzip2|lzop> depending on what compressor is detected or user-specification, so simple patching won't work. At the moment, ark builds a (g)tar commandline and executes it via KProcess - using pipes instead of the --use-compress-program parameter would at the least mean using KShellProcess instead, which would involve, well, a shell. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCUo2PXhc68WspdLARArVdAJ9TpYdHdSEwYN5Qh2J1+UPkWB0HVgCfb9WX GF6xxTMoqtQhm885HnUTZAg= =e6dJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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