Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

Charles R. Anderson (cra@angus.ind.WPI.EDU)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:48:19 -0500 (EST)


Thanks to all who responded.

The 'I' option does not work with my tar, but --use-compress-program=bzip2
does. The patch mentioned below adds a 'y' option for bzip2 to GNU tar.
I suppose now all we need is some standardization in this area...

On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Trevor Johnson wrote:

trevor> There's a patch for that (except using different flags):
trevor> http://www.muraroa.demon.co.uk/gnutarpatch.txt

Charles R. Anderson : Senior CS Major @ WPI : http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/
"Open Source UNIX is shaped by people who use it. Microsoft shapes NT to
respond to competitive threats." - Nicholas Petreley, NC World, June 1998

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