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Alexander Skwar schrieb: |
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> Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more |
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>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. |
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> Uhm, what's bad about |
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> tar cf - | p7zip .... |
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It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive. |
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Well, I think I'll create a shell script or an alias for that. |
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>> If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not |
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>> have been the need to keep it |
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> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY |
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> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons |
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> on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but |
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> switched to cdrkit? |
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>> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar |
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>> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. |
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> What do you mean? |
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Just that I used regular expressions to search for tar writing to |
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stdout, something that star can't, apparently. It seems it didn't work. |
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Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. |
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>> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star |
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>> to /bin/tar. |
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>> Let's see if it works. |
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> Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run |
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> into problems. |
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Well, most are. I ran into problems anyway (see above). So, I'm back to |
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gnu tar. |
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