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>>>>> On Wed, 26 Sep 2012, Michael Mol wrote: |
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> A few months ago, I filed bug 423651 to ask that bzip2 on the |
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> install media be replaced with pbzip2. It was closed a short while |
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> later, telling me that it'd involve changing what's kept in @system, |
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> and that had to be discussed here, rather than in a bug report. |
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We need to be careful when we replace such standard tools. Often the |
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replacement isn't completely compatible. For example, pbzip2 suffers |
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from the same bug as pigz [1] when it encounters a zero-padded tarball: |
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$ echo foo | bzip2 | dd conv=sync 2>/dev/null | pbzip2 -d |
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foo |
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pbzip2: *ERROR during BZ2_bzDecompress - trailing garbage: ret=4; block=0; seq=0; isLastInSeq=1; avail_in=472 |
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Terminator thread: premature exit requested - quitting... |
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$ echo $? |
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1 |
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The same command line as above but with bzip2 -d will return a good |
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exit status. |
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Ulrich |
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[1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=417657#c17> |
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