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Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the
From: |
Steffen Nurpmeso |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Aug 2016 14:17:20 +0200 |
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Guten Morgen. ^_^
Joerg Schilling <address@hidden> wrote:
|Steffen Nurpmeso <address@hidden> wrote:
|>|A better solution may be to call:
|>|
|>| star -c -f some-file -find ....
|>|
|>|This is even faster than using find | xargs.
|>
|> I started using star instead of what was on (then) MacOS
..
|> tarball it spit out error messages on format incompatibilities for
|> tarballs of mine, a problem area i hadn't been sensitized for.
..
|POSIX compliant but really are not? Note that it does not warn with gtar
|archives, as gtar does not mark them as POSIX archives.
..
|> Same is true for smake, by the way, it just failed in the other
|> window: it is really time to replace the main work machine that
|> died almost a year ago now.
|
|Even though smake is much older than gmake, I planned to let it die \
|in 1997 but
No, please don't. It is fast and if you provide an .y inference
rule it rocks it.
|then I discovered that gmake does not work on many platforms that are \
|listed as
|"working". Gmake does not work at all with non-trivial makefiles on \
|OS/2 and VMS
|and it has massive problems on Cygwin because of the incorrect white space
|handling. I was forced to continue to support smake in order to support
|cdrtools on all target platforms.
|
|Smake is much closer to POSIX than gmake, but it uses a common namespace \
|for
|macros and rules and it does not support looking into timestamps in \
|libraries.
|If you have a project that was written for "make" and not for "gmake", \
|I am
|willing to change smake.
My problem was that i had to diversify my makefile because we now
need -lrt on Solaris (for nanosleep(2)), also for
a privilege-separated mini support-program, and that didn't work
out (it would gain GSSAPI libraries too, then, for example). The
result used $(<) in a non-inference rule, which smake didn't like.
(Maybe gmake(1) would have complained with .POSIX, but which
i don't use because gmake v3.81 bails for it.)
Now fixed.
|> Where was i? Ah. Well i could use list= of star, but that is
|> non-portable (the STARvsGNUTAR has some false claims btw.).
|
|If you are talking about CLI compatibility, you are right with "list=",
|but please note that this option has been added in 1984 already. At \
|that time,
|there was no -I option in UNIX tar. This was added on UNIX in late 1989.
|
|If you know of statements in STARvsGNUTAR that are no longer true (the \
|file was
|last changed in 2007), please send a list of items that need to be \
|corrected.
Ooooooh. Puuuuuh. I feel it, i feel it ... there is a burnout
syndrome lingering on the horizon. ._.
Ciao.
--steffen
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/08/27
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Joerg Schilling, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Ralph Corderoy, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Joerg Schilling, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Joerg Schilling, 2016/08/30
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive,
Steffen Nurpmeso <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Joerg Schilling, 2016/08/30
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/08/31
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Tim Kientzle, 2016/08/29
- Re: [Bug-tar] Monthly backup doesn't expand files, but which are in the archive, Steffen Nurpmeso, 2016/08/29