Hi,
I'd like to remind the maintainers of GNU tar to the following post to
bug-tar:
Markus Steinborn schrieb:
Hi everybody,
Today I noticed that GNU tar (git master) now supports XATTRs, ACLs
and SELINUX-Attributes. I am really pleased to read this in git log.
Congratualtions for this
On 04/26/2013 12:56 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
So you think something like remove the leading path '/usr/bin/' before
comparison with 'GZIP_PROGRAM'?
I'm afraid that will lead to even more confusion; among other things,
tar shouldn't care what the program names are.
It may be better to have two
When tar infers a compressor it can also infer which of these two
options to use.
That means, using the -Z, -z, .. options will setup some new flag, same
as the new use-compress-program-like option will. Do you have some
requirements for this option name? This is the hard one..
Would you be
On 04/26/2013 01:17 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
Do you have some
requirements for this option name?
We could have --use-compress-program for the compress API,
and --use-filter-program for the more-vanilla API.
Or something like that. I'm fine with your preparing
a patch.
That sort of thing all sounds reasonable, I guess.
I'd like Sergey's opinion though.
On Friday, April 26, 2013 01:36:02 AM Paul Eggert wrote:
On 04/26/2013 01:17 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
Do you have some
requirements for this option name?
We could have --use-compress-program for the compress API,
and --use-filter-program for the more-vanilla API.
Or something like that.
On 04/26/2013 03:07 AM, Pavel Raiskup wrote:
-I, --use-filter-program (general 'vanilla' API)
--use-compress-program (obsoleted alias to ^^^)
// remove from --help man info to not confuse people
--use-compress-like-program (with a *proper* definition what it does)
// or
On 04/26/2013 10:07 AM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
Converting gzip to the general API seems the right thing to do in the long
term.
That might be wise, yes, but there might be other users who
expect the current behavior, and we'd need to consult with them.
And there are a lot of other compressor
