On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:09:06PM +0100, Ingo Saitz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:26:32PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > > tar in potato uses -I for bzip2. So far, tar -I won't be bzip2 in > > woody, the next stable. > > I wonder how other linux distributions will handle this. Would it > be possible for potato, to support -j as well to ease the > transition to the new option? So anybody using debian could start > using -j in their scripts. Then woody will start issue a warning > for using -I .
Scripts should use --bzip2, which will probably be supported forever, and has the nice side effect of failing with tars that don't support it (rather than doing something unexpected). -- - mdz