#358 closed defect (invalid)
tar patch unneeded; tar -I does bzip2
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| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | minor | Keywords: | |
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Description
According to the info files with the distributed version of tar, the -I option runs archives through bzip2. Patch to add bzip2 support not needed any more?
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Technically, you're right. But, the new tar version (whenever it's released) will make the -I option obsolete and replace with the -j option. There have been several different tar options in the past to deal with bzip2, -I -y and -j
They had to settle on one (-I had some problems on non-Linux platforms where it was already used for something else by other tar implementations) and -j is the one that's used now. So to make the transition smooth that what we're using so when GNU finally does release a new tar, nobody'll have to start learning to use a new tar option. Then again some distro's out there still use -I or -j...life's hard ;)