[BusyBox] tar xz is broken

[Erik Andersen]

On Sat Jul 05, 2003 at 02:12:37PM +0200, Thomas Eckert wrote:
> 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.

Cool.

> - 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?).

Oops.
I have now fixed this case to print
    "Creating bzip2 compressed archives is not currently supported."
since we do not currently support doing that...

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

Ok, fixed now.

 -Erik

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