[BusyBox] tar xz is broken

Thomas Eckert tom at uni-freiburg.de
Sat Jul 5 12:12:37 UTC 2003


On Sat, 5 Jul 2003, Erik Andersen wrote:

> On Thu Jul 03, 2003 at 03:03:32PM +0200, Thomas Eckert wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Axel Barnitzke wrote:
> > > 
> > > tar xzf file.tar.gz  -> "Error decrompressing"
> > > gunzip -c file.tar.gz | tar xf -   works fine
> > I had a similar problem (cvs a few days ago) but forgot to report it :(
> 
> Could you both give the very latest snapshot (or cvs)
> a try?  There was a silly typo....

test results:
- bb-tar "czf" created archives can be "tzf"'ed with both bb- and gnu-tar now.
- bb-tar "cjf" does not create a valid tbz2-archive -- if fact the result is a
  plain tar-file (no compression) -- but does not warn about the unrecognized
  parameter combination "cj" (bb does not have bzip2-compression yet, right?).

- cosmetic: versose "-v" does not show any output when used with "create"

Thomas

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