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On Tuesday 05 August 2003 04:28, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> On 08/04/03 splite-gentoo@××××××××××××××××.edu wrote: |
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> > On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote: |
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> > > It's fixed in current 49_pre versions. And only using bunzip2 won't |
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> > > work as it only decompresses the package, but it does not untar it. |
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> > > You have to send the uncompressed tarball to tar. The fixed line is |
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> > > notok=spawn("bzip2 -dc "+mytbz2+" | tar xpf -",free=1) |
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> > |
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> > Why not: |
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> > notok=spawn("tar xpjf "+mytbz2,free=1) |
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> I didn't fix it so I can only guess: the -j option for tar is a GNU |
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> extension and portage aims at OS compatibility with *BSD, MacOS and |
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> cygwin, these systems are not using GNU tar by default. The pipe |
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> solutions should work on all these systems. |
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It is actually an unofficial extension that has the same meaning as the z |
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option except it is for bz2. For portability one should use |
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"--use-compress-program bzip2" though, which is exactly what it is a |
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shorthand for. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv |
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