* Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge harmless buglet?
@ 2003-08-05 2:28 99% ` Marius Mauch
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From: Marius Mauch @ 2003-08-05 2:28 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On 08/04/03 splite-gentoo@sigint.cs.purdue.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:32:28PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> >
> > It's fixed in current 49_pre versions. And only using bunzip2 won't
> > work as it only decompresses the package, but it does not untar it.
> > You have to send the uncompressed tarball to tar. The fixed line is
> > notok=spawn("bzip2 -dc "+mytbz2+" | tar xpf -",free=1)
>
> Why not:
> notok=spawn("tar xpjf "+mytbz2,free=1)
I didn't fix it so I can only guess: the -j option for tar is a GNU
extension and portage aims at OS compatibility with *BSD, MacOS and
cygwin, these systems are not using GNU tar by default. The pipe
solutions should work on all these systems.
Marius
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