Change tar bz2 option from -y to -j

[markh@…]

I've just been in touch with the tar maintainers:

I was wondering if you are still the maintainer for tar. If so, are there any plans to patch tar-1.13 with the patch for including the option y for using bzip2 files (if bzip2 is available on the system) and release it as 1.14.

There was a conflict with -y, so we plan to use -j. It's in the latest test version, which you can get at: ​ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/

I suggest we change our patch so that it uses -j in CVS. This way, when we move to the next tar release we won't find the switches changing.

Comments

[gerard@…]

Mark, as you have been in contact already with the maintainer perhaps you can ask him exactly what the conflict was as thousands of us LFS'ers haven't had any conflicts with it.

Also this would mean we'd have to patch the bzip2 patch, I rather wait for the new tar to be released that will probably not even require the patch. Then we can just remove the patch (and add a note for a release or two that the bzip2 has been changed in this new tar release).

I therefore opt to keep things as they are for now.

I'll forward this to lfs-discuss too.