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Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficien
From: |
Stefano Lattarini |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:23:17 +0200 |
On 04/30/2013 05:09 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
>
> [SNIP]
>
> Given how inconsistent the documentation and the implementations
> of compress are, that it is obsolete, and that the compress format
> was not designed to allow integrity checks, I would like to make a
> proposal for the maintainers of tar to consider. What about removing
> *compression* support for compress from tar?
>
FWIW, seconded.
> I mean, is anybody still *creating* tar.Z files?
>
> And if there is somebody doing this, can't they use compress directly?:
>
> $ echo foo > foo
> $ tar -c foo | compress > foo.tar.Z ; echo $?
> 0
>
>
> Best regards,
> Antonio.
>
>
Regards,
Stefano
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/04/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/26
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/28
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Tim Kientzle, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio,
Stefano Lattarini <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/30
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] Do not fail when 'compress' is unable to provide sufficient compress ratio, Paul Eggert, 2013/04/26
- [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/04/27
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/28
- Re: [Bug-tar] [PATCH] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns, Pavel Raiskup, 2013/04/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] tar: do not fail hardly when compressor just warns, Antonio Diaz Diaz, 2013/04/29