Alexander Skwar schrieb: > Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Alexander Skwar schrieb: >>> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more >>>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. >>> Uhm, what's bad about >>> >>> tar cf - | p7zip .... >> It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access an archive. > > Okay. I don't think so. > I don't want to flame but does that mean that you are one of the guys that always use the menu button when there's a hotkey available?
Yet, I agree with you in that it's not a good excuse for breaking POSIX compliance, one more thing that can break. A bundle of scripts would be better to wrap tar and *zip. >>>> I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar >>>> compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. >>> What do you mean? >>> >> Just that I used regular expressions to search for tar writing to >> stdout, something that star can't, apparently. > > star can write to stdout. "./star -c -f - . > ../s" > Ehhm, yes, it can. Sorry for that mistake. I really meant this behavior: "Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress files." (from Volker's first post). >> It seems it didn't work. > > What is "it"? Using find, grep and regular expressions to search for a case which could trigger that misbehavior of star in order to find out whether I can safely replace tar with star. > >> Not all but some emerge actions failed while using star. > > No wonder. Command line options aren't compatible. And hell > will freeze before Mr. Schilling will change. > I'm a bit puzzled. You wrote gnu tar is not POSIX compliant and now it's star's fault that it doesn't work without modifying scripts? >>>> I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star >>>> to /bin/tar. >>>> >>>> Let's see if it works. >>> Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run >>> into problems. >>> >> Well, most are. > > Not really. For GNU tar, "tar cf - . > ../s" would work. Not so > for star. > > Alexander Skwar > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
