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On Sun, 27 Jun 2010 13:08:58 +0200 |
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Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> > > Well, at least for tar, I've experienced no problem here yet. |
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> > > But: true, it might change between tar versions. |
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> > The main offender is the compression program, not tar. |
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> hmm, I'm exclusively using bzip2 and never had these problems |
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> yet. maybe it depends on the compressor type. |
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Your problem is that you are thinking in terms of "well I've not seen |
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it break", not "I can prove that it will always work". |
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You may find the "Compressed output may vary" section of "man 1 xz" to |
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be useful. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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