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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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> 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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> 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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Alexander Skwar |
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