Re: tar/pax and bzip2 - patch

[Bruno Rohee <bruno_(_at_)_rohee_(_dot_)_com>]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 10:35:49AM +0100, Dries Schellekens wrote:
> Zvezdan Petkovic wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:29:17AM +0100, Samuel Ljungkvist wrote:
> >
> >>Since a few friends of mine whined enough about the lack of this feature 
> >>in OpenBSD tar, I fixed it:
> >>
> >>http://triplefusion.net/pax-bzip2.patch
> >>
> >>This does all relevant changes that I can see, including manpages; patch 
> >>filenames are relative to /usr/src with no directory stripping.
> >>
> >
> >Why would a base system application support an application that is not
> >in base system?  Wouldn't that be a bug?
> 
> Will bzip2 ever be in the base system? I always tought it had a bad 
> license (GPL), but this is BSDL (http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/). So 
> that is not a problem...

There has long been talk of zlib handling bzip2
(e.g. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/03/10/1043247) but it seems that
it is still nowhere, but it would be a great thing for seamless integration
with tar...

-- 
You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks.