Archaic wrote: > On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:27:55PM +0300, Martins Galenieks wrote: > >> I noted that Gzip package does not contain one more important line. >> The .tar.Z packages can't be unpacked with /bin/tar -xf option (in >> tar-1.15.1 and newer) and therefore I have a recommendation to add >> the following line to the Gzip package in LFS (HLFS and ALFS too). > > This sounds like a failure with tar. Can you provide a link to this > solution (preferably from an upstream developer of tar or gzip)? >
Doesn't tar require the -Z option to decompress .tar.Z files? I thought it did. Or is this the "tar-1.15.1 and newer" comment? The info page (1.15.1) doesn't say anything about automagically guessing the file type... The -Z option does require a way to execute "compress", though, and that can be a symlink pointing at gzip. (gzip already installs an "uncompress" symlink, pointing at gunzip, but apparently that isn't what tar needs.)
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