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From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
To: crossgcc@sourceware.org
Cc: Titus von Boxberg <titus@v9g.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 1] using tar with xz and lzma archives
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201111171946.33409.yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <patchbomb.1321540043@stetschkin.alsteraero.lan>

Titus, All,

On Thursday 17 November 2011 15:27:23 Titus von Boxberg wrote:
> on my machine tar --use-decompress-program does not work.

What tar is this?

(Note: this is --use-compress-program, not --use-_de_compress-program)

GNU tar supports --use-compress-program since at least 2004.

The tar in MacOS-X does document this option:
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man1/tar.1.html

> However, -J or --lzma does work.

The -J was introduced 2008-12-27 in GNU tar, so it is not supported by
Debian Lenny (the previous stable, still widely used), so this can't be
used. --lzma is also relatively recent, it was added 2008-04-14 (still
in GNU tar).

The tar in MacOS-X supports neither -J nor --lzma, so neither is portable.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-11-17 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-17 14:30 Titus von Boxberg
2011-11-17 14:30 ` [PATCH 1 of 1] scripts/functions: tar: use -J or --lzma instead of --use-compress-program Titus von Boxberg
2011-11-17 18:46 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2011-11-18 11:16   ` [PATCH 0 of 1] using tar with xz and lzma archives Titus von Boxberg

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