gzip support in tar broken for 12.2?

Roberto A. Foglietta roberto.foglietta at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 07:28:30 UTC 2008


2008/12/6 Roberto A. Foglietta <roberto.foglietta at gmail.com>:
> 2008/12/5 Tjernlund <tjernlund at tjernlund.se>:
>> After upgrading to bb 12.2 bb tar does not understand
>> the z option:
>> #> tar z
>> tar: invalid option -- z
>>
>> I am using the same .config and CONFIG_FEATURE_GZIP=y is set
>>
>
>  Confirmed version 1.12.2 does not support any compression method.
>

 Attached patch which revert some changes, would solve the problem.
 Seeing the patch I think it would be not confined to tar applet only.

 Cheers,
-- 
/roberto
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