On Mon, Apr 04, 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: > In addition, bsdtar actually ignores the -z > flag on extraction in favor of libarchive's automatic > compression detection. FWIW, I really like this feature. > 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. > When testing bsdtar against the ports collection, we found that > most programs can be easily tweaked to work equally well with > either bsdtar or gtar. > > If the primary maintainers are uninterested in this change, ark > can be patched in the port to use "-z" or to use gtar. (I just > noticed that the current port of "ark" depends on gtar.) If this is really a problem for lots of ports (which I highly doubt), a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as an undocumented option and ignore it. This would give these broken ports a better chance of working.Received on Tue Apr 05 2005 - 09:49:24 UTC
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