Re: deb + tar + bzip2 suggestion
Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org> writes:
> 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.
Why wasn't the -z option expanded to recognize the bzip2 signature?
That would seem to be a better solution to me.
Falk
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