From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ia4BV-0005wK-W9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:46:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8P6ah08016194; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:36:43 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8P6ULVH006866 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273C66522A for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.542 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.542 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.198, BAYES_20=-0.74] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7fPYsz05xA7P for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2F96539B for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Ia3vm-00085a-BZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:02 +0000 Received: from zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch ([212.55.215.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:02 +0000 Received: from listen by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:30:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: star Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:27:26 +0200 Organization: n/a Message-ID: <16100396.KPhQdExJr1@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> References: <46F53CC6.30503@addcom.de> <200709221923.59083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <46F55B7F.5010200@addcom.de> <6588017.soo7h8R4ZM@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> <46F7E7F0.9080108@addcom.de> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 64cb817d-d464-4295-88e7-7130472eb352 X-Archives-Hash: 7b45b37b887592045b603d71157b3b2b Florian Philipp wrote: > Alexander Skwar schrieb: >> Florian Philipp 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 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" > It seems it didn't work. What is "it"? > 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'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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list