Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 08:29:32 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <4252AEDC.5020800@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200504051507.27511.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050404002141.2819f386@dolphin.local.net> <42521824.1030009@kientzle.com> <200504051507.27511.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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 ....
Seems like it should be fairly minor to change it to use
<-z|-z|-j|--use-compress-program=lzop>
Tim
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