Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 08/28/05 10:44 CST: > For the glibc-linuxthreads package we use 'tar -xjvf' and for the > bash-docs package we use 'tar -zxf'. Should we continue to use verbosity > for one and not the other?
I believe the -v option should not be used on either. My philosophy is that if something is being untarred to a final resting place (i.e., somewhere in /usr), then use it as this creates a log of the installed files. However, in the instance where something is being untarred into a source tree which will later be removed (the case with both glibc and bash), then it should not be used as any errors are more easily recognizable during the untar. No log of the untar is necessary for stuff going only into a source tree. As far as using the -z or -j switch, I don't care. But you are right Jeremy, in that it isn't needed. -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 10:49:00 up 148 days, 10:22, 3 users, load average: 0.47, 0.19, 0.18 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
