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Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion



At 14:16 +0200 1998-04-18, Brederlow wrote:
>I think it would be a good idea to teach tar to unpack bzip2 files via
>the -z option, just as if it would be gzip. Alternativly one could
>teach gzip to use bzip2 for .bz2 archives or teach dpkg to distinguish
>between the two.

Debian tar has a patch which hands off files to bzip2 if the -I option is
passed to it.

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Joel "Espy" Klecker    <mailto:jk@espy.org>    <http://web.espy.org/>
Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/>



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