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| On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Bruno Rohee wrote: > 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 are confused. tar/pax does not handle z compression internally via zlib. It forks a gzip process to compress or decompress. -Otto |