Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 12:45:23 -0400 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: gtar gone from base system Message-ID: <20050405164523.GA51452@VARK.MIT.EDU> In-Reply-To: <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <4243B57D.5050204@freebsd.org> <20050405114907.GA49792@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4252AFD0.8090701@freebsd.org> <200504051833.08198.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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On Tue, Apr 05, 2005, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > 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 > --use-compress-program and it would continue to work if the tar in question > simply ignored it. Why not? If libarchive supports the compression format, it will automatically detect it and perform the appropriate decompression. > In ark's case, ark would just fail to extract an archive > completely silently, making it harder to diagnose what's going wrong. Why? If libarchive doesn't support the compression format, then it will fail and ark should detect this.home | help
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