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Florian Philipp <f.philipp@××××××.de> wrote: |
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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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Okay. I don't think so. |
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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. |
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star can write to stdout. "./star -c -f - . > ../s" |
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> It seems it didn't work. |
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What is "it"? |
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> Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. |
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No wonder. Command line options aren't compatible. And hell |
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will freeze before Mr. Schilling will change. |
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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. |
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Not really. For GNU tar, "tar cf - . > ../s" would work. Not so |
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for star. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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