Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch
This is a discussion on Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch within the mailing.openbsd.tech forums, part of the OpenBSD category; --> On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:35:49AM +0100, Dries Schellekens wrote: > Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > >On Thu, Mar ...
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 Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:35:49AM +0100, Dries Schellekens wrote: > Zvezdan Petkovic wrote: > >On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:29:17AM +0100, Samuel Ljungkvist wrote: > > > >>Since a few friends of mine whined enough about the lack of this feature > >>in OpenBSD tar, I fixed it: > >> > >>http://triplefusion.net/pax-bzip2.patch > >> > >>This does all relevant changes that I can see, including manpages; patch > >>filenames are relative to /usr/src with no directory stripping. > >> > > > >Why would a base system application support an application that is not > >in base system? Wouldn't that be a bug? > > Will bzip2 ever be in the base system? I always tought it had a bad > license (GPL), but this is BSDL (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). So > that is not a problem... There has long been talk of zlib handling bzip2 (e.g. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/10/1043247) but it seems that it is still nowhere, but it would be a great thing for seamless integration with tar... -- You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.      |
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