Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:33:04 +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: <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org>
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--nextPart4231974.jIDqPuIdzm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday, 5. April 2005 17:33, Tim Kientzle wrote: > David Schultz wrote: > > ... a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as > > an undocumented option and ignore it. > > Tempting, tempting.... ;-/ Not one bit, IMHO. I can't imagine a single case where something would use= =20 =2D-use-compress-program and it would continue to work if the tar in questi= on=20 simply ignored it. In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive= =20 completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong. Mapping it to -z and relying on libarchives autodetection would be somewhat= =20 better. Actually implementing it would still be best. And useful, too. =2D-=20 ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | lofi@freebsd.org (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org --nextPart4231974.jIDqPuIdzm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCUr3EXhc68WspdLARAv3cAJ9i7rLi8yQAUsBrthYxC14S3N3jYwCgmM71 uwbWIrGRTA8QpUf/ed/1XQU= =D5Uq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart4231974.jIDqPuIdzm--
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