Package: tar
Version: 1.15.1-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch upstream
Hi!
Please, could you apply this patch to make tar auto-detect 7zipped tarballs?
It adds the magic numbers in src/buffer.c so that you can do:
tar -xf foo.tar.7z
without having to specify an uncompressor manualy.
This patch has already been sent to upstream.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to C)
-- no debconf information
diff -ur tar-1.15.1.old/src/buffer.c tar-1.15.1/src/buffer.c
--- tar-1.15.1.old/src/buffer.c 2004-12-21 16:09:24.000000000 +0100
+++ tar-1.15.1/src/buffer.c 2005-12-14 12:07:28.000000000 +0100
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@
ct_none,
ct_compress,
ct_gzip,
- ct_bzip2
+ ct_bzip2,
+ ct_p7zip
};
struct zip_magic
@@ -170,6 +171,7 @@
{ ct_compress, "\037\235", 2, "compress", "-Z" },
{ ct_gzip, "\037\213", 2, "gzip", "-z" },
{ ct_bzip2, "BZh", 3, "bzip2", "-j" },
+ { ct_p7zip, "7z\274\257\047\034", 6, "p7zip", "--use-compress-program=p7zip" },
};
#define NMAGIC (sizeof(magic)/sizeof(magic[0]))
