robert wrote: > Neal Murphy wrote: >> On Tuesday 07 December 2010 04:55:43 robert wrote: >>> unpacked udev-161.tar.bz2 >>> cd udev-161 >>> then copy and paste ... (the two dearchive operations are "xvf"??? and >>> not "jxvf"??? >> 'tar xvf' unpacks a noncompressed tar archvie (.tar). >> 'tar xvfj' unpacks a bz2-compressed archive (.tar.bz2). >> 'tar xvfz' unpacks a gzip-compressed archive (.tar.gz, .tgz). > > So, I don't follow then. Instructions at > 6.59. Udev-161 > say: tar -xvf ../udev-config-20100128.tar.bz2 ... > why not *J*xvf?
When extracting, GNU tar is smart enough to recognize the compression type, if any, without being told. This capability has been in place for several years. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
