On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-current-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > "Chris H" <bsd-li...@bsdforge.com> writes: > >>> On 8/26/14 11:05 AM, Chris H wrote: >>>> Greetings, >>>> I'm currently testing 11. My build / install is from about 2 days ago. >>>> I generally use xz compression, when creating archives. But when I >>>> attempt the following: >>>> >>>> tar -cvJ --options xz:9 -f ./archive-name.tar.xz ./file >>>> >>>> it returns the following: >>>> >>>> tar: Undefined option: `xz:9' >>>> >>>> This has always worked in previous versions. Has the syntax changed, >>>> and the man(1) pages just haven't caught up? >>> >>> I use: >>> tar -cJ --options xz:compression-level=1 >>> .. on head. Are you using the right syntax? >> Apparently not. Using your example works as expected. >> RELENG_8, and RELENG_9 use short-hand; >> tar -cvJ --options xz:9 >> >> Why/when the change to long-hand? Seems a shame. Now I >> get to modify all my scripts, and such. :P Altho I >> don't suppose it'd be a big deal to back out (revert) the >> changes made to tar(1). :) > > I can't find any changes that would make the syntax change. At least, > not in quite a long while. Therefore, this change may not be > intentional. However, I looked at the the manual page from 9.3, and its > description of the features looks the same as on the latest HEAD, and > *doesn't* look like leaving out a "key" (in this case, > "compression-level") is ever compliant. > > You might try the latest (or older) libarchive from the ports, and > compare its behaviour. Also, there are a number (amusingly many, in > fact) of other ways of specifying these parameters that may be more > convenient for you, so another look throught the tar(1) manual might > save you a few minutes. > > Good luck.
I've CCed kientzle@ for input. Thanks! -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"