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 1IZjbm-0001Ev-LQ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:48:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8O8bmN0013441; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:37:48 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 l8O8UKHb003359 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:21 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B5E65327 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.721 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.721 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.389, BAYES_05=-1.11] 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 x6w9S5LQx-+H for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:13 +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 86B7264EE9 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IZjKM-0001g7-7l for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:02 +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 ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:02 +0000 Received: from listen by zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:30:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Alexander Skwar Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: star Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:27:46 +0200 Organization: n/a Message-ID: <6588017.soo7h8R4ZM@kn.gn.rtr.message-center.info> References: <46F53CC6.30503@addcom.de> <200709221923.59083.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <46F55B7F.5010200@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=utf-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: zy-rieter.cyberlink.ch User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l8O8bmNJ013441 X-Archives-Salt: bc5309f9-9949-4c16-b538-2ce26cc5850b X-Archives-Hash: 2a81b34f27ac3493786994b3dd75edd6 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 .... > If star were a fully qualified replacement for gnu tar, there would not > have been the need to keep it=20 To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY have star: Star is made by J=C3=B6rg Schilling, one of the biggest morons on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but switched to cdrkit? > I used find and grep to search for any implementations of tar > compressing to stdout - I couldn't find any. What do you mean? > I'll move /bin/tar to /bin/gnutar and make a symlink from /usr/bin/star > to /bin/tar. >=20 > Let's see if it works. Command line options aren't identical. I wouldn't wonder if you run into problems. Alexander Skwar --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list