the recent version of tar also accept the -a switch (for auto)

Le 16 janv. 2014 à 16:14, TheSin a écrit :

> oh nice didn't know that, guess I just feel old since I still use -z ;)
> ---
> TS
> http://www.southofheaven.org/
> Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos!
> 
> On 2014-01-16, at 7:47 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> 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.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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