On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 10:53:32AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > 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.
Thanks for the comment, Randy. Makes sense to me. If no one has any objections, then, I'll change both commands to be 'tar -xf'. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
