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 1IZ9j9-00009M-4g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:29:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8MIJ3j6004251; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:19:03 GMT Received: from smtp13.unit.tiscali.de (smtp11.unit.tiscali.de [213.205.33.47]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l8MIEPKl031230 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:14:25 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.5] (89.57.33.28) by smtp13.unit.tiscali.de (7.3.122) (authenticated as f.philipp@addcom.de) id 46B409840002561C for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:14:24 +0200 Message-ID: <46F55B7F.5010200@addcom.de> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:14:23 +0200 From: Florian Philipp User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070906) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] star References: <46F53CC6.30503@addcom.de> <200709221923.59083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <200709221923.59083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8abd3ce3-4503-4986-959d-a75e188c0379 X-Archives-Hash: 8353d25f4d13eadde79fd2b3f74686aa Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: > On Samstag, 22. September 2007, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi! >> >> I'd like to hear some comments on app-arch/star. >> >> I've looked at its (IMHO really great) man page and didn't see anything >> obviously concerning. Most frequently used tar options (-c -x -p -z -j) >> seem to be in place. >> >> What I'd like to know: Is it fully backward compatible to tar? Could I >> safely unmerge tar and make a symlink from tar to star? >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Florian Philipp > > http://bulk.fefe.de/lk2006/bench.html > >> Turns out that star can't do "star xzf -", it will say "Can only compress > files." ROTFL! OK, so I used "|gzip -dc|star xf -" instead. What the hell. > > seems that it is not 100% comaptible. > > Since gnu tar, bsd tar and star each are different, I would not unmerge the > gnu tar. Is there any reason not to use the gnu tar? star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip. Its other features (better funcionality for acl, sparse files, recovery and backups among other things) didn't sound bad, either. If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not have been the need to keep it (and to produce possible inconsitency when using both versions). I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. Although I don't trust my skills with regular expressions and the result of my test that much I'll do the following: 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. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list