Jürgen Hötzel wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:40:15PM -0500, joe henderson wrote: >> All, >> >> Is there a way to turn on gzips "larger file size" bit in the install? >> > > gzip needs to be patched to use O_LARGEFILE.
Has anyone filed a bug for this yet? If not, please let me know and I'll file one. I just tested unzipping a > 4GB tarball and found that gunzip is indeed barfing on it. BTW, bzip2 is NOT a solution here. It's *VERY* much slower than gzip. > Workaround, using > shell-redirection: > > gzip <in.tar >/tmp/out.tar.gz > > Jürgen Hmmm ... not sure I grok why this is different. Anyone want to hit me with a cluestick? DR _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
