From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 5 16:33:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1B4116A4CF for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:33:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A65A43D3F for ; Tue, 5 Apr 2005 16:33:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Apr 2005 16:33:11 -0000 Received: from p508BE33E.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO lofi.dyndns.org) [80.139.227.62] by mail.gmx.net (mp021) with SMTP; 05 Apr 2005 18:33:11 +0200 X-Authenticated: #443188 Received: from kiste.my.domain (lofi@kiste.my.domain [192.168.8.4]) (authenticated bits=0) by lofi.dyndns.org (8.13.3/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j35GX9QV038283 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:33:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from michaelnottebrock@gmx.net) From: Michael Nottebrock To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:33:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart4231974.jIDqPuIdzm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: David Schultz cc: Tim Kientzle cc: "Conrad J. Sabatier" cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:33:15 -0000 --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--