Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion

[Christophe Broult <christophe.broult@info.unicaen.fr>]

Stephan Kulow <coolo@itm.mu-luebeck.de> writes:

> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > The main advantage would be that one could use tar.bz2 for deb
> > packages without altering dpkg and thereby save a lot of space.
> > 
> > Whats the general opinion about this and is maybe somebody already
> > working on it?
> > 
> I think, you could save some space, but the installation time of Debian
> would increase dramaticly. I wouldn't like to see this. While it would be
> a big plus for ftp users, it would be a big minus for CD users. 
> 
> BTW: tar can handle bz2 files. you can use --use-compress-program=bzip2.

That option isn't working properly with bzip2 but hopefully bzip2 is
now supported by tar ie

tar cIf
tar xIf
tar tIf

broult@madison:~ $ tar --help | grep zip
  -I, --bzip2, --bunzip2             filter the archive through bzip2
  -z, --gzip, --ungzip               filter the archive through gzip
broult@madison:~ $ 

> 
> Greets, Stephan
> 
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> Stephan Kulow (coolo@kde.org)
> Student of medical CS
> Medical University of Luebeck (MFCH)
> 
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