On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:56:09AM +0200, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would you please consider this patch for p7zip support? > > The quick glance over the patch raises following concerns/questions: > > 1. It is not a good idea to use -I option, since it will break > command line compatibility with other tar implementations. The > proposed long option --p7zip should suffice.
Ok. > 2. Where one can obtain sources for p7zip binary? The tarball > p7zip_4.30_src_all.tar.bz2 distributed from www.7zip.org does > not contain them. It builds 7za which is unusable as a tar > compression filter (it was discussed some time ago). p7zip is a script wrapper included with Debian and other distributions. Its task is working around the bugs and limitations in 7za to provide a gzip-like interface. Because 7za doesn't support streaming, the p7zip script emulates it using temporary files. -- Robert Millan _______________________________________________ Bug-tar mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
