Alexander Skwar schrieb: > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. > > Uhm, what's bad about > > tar cf - | p7zip ....
It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive. Well, I think I'll create a shell script or an alias for that. > >> If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not >> have been the need to keep it > > To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY > have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons > on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but > switched to cdrkit? > >> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar >> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. > > What do you mean? > Just that I used regular expressions to search for tar writing to stdout, something that star can't, apparently. It seems it didn't work. Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. >> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star >> to /bin/tar. >> >> Let's see if it works. > > Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run > into problems. > Well, most are. I ran into problems anyway (see above). So, I'm back to gnu tar. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
