On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:36:02 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul_at_BitBlocks.com> wrote: > What is the status of this bug? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76294 > > [summary: certain gzipped tar files can't be untarred > correctly with -z flag but work fine if with gzcat|tar xvf -] > > Seems to me this bug needs to be fixed in bsdtar before gtar > is removed (note: gtar does not have this problem). In > particular if zlib is buggy, either it needs to be upgraded > or bsdtar needs to run compressed files through gzip. > > Thanks! > > -- bakul In a similar vein, I just discovered that KDE's "ark" can no longer properly extract gzipped tar files: tar: unrecognized option `--use-compress-program=gunzip' Any chance of adding this option to bsdtar? -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads_at_cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"Received on Mon Apr 04 2005 - 03:21:51 UTC
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