On 1/16/14 6:47 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 1/16/14 6:35 AM, TheSin wrote: >> shouldn't fink be sending ta -xzvf ?? it's missing the -z for gzip >> >> that being said I don't think it'll fix it but it's still odd. >> --- >> TS >> http://www.southofheaven.org/ >> Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! >> >> On 2014-01-16, at 7:12 AM, Charles Lepple <clep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> env LANG=C LC_ALL=C /sw.lion/bin/tar --no-same-owner >>> --no-same-permissions -xvf >>> /Users/clepple/Downloads/CGI-FormBuilder-3.09.tgz >>> /sw.lion/bin/tar: This does not look like a tar archive >>> /sw.lion/bin/tar: Skipping to next header >>> /sw.lion/bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >>> ### execution of env failed, exit code 2 >> >> >> > > No, we deliberately dropped adding -z (or -j, or whatever), because tars > at least as new as the gnu tar from 10.5 are supposed to be able to > figure out what compression utility is needed, so we can get away with > using "tar -xvf" on uncompressed tarballs, gzipped tarballs, bzipped > tarballs, and xzipped tarballs without having to go through conditionals > to figure out what decompressor is needed. >
Though in point of fact we didn't actually use flags for tar. We figured out the compression utility via extension, used that, and piped the result into tar. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
