Am Sun, 25 Aug 2013 18:30:17 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Jan Engelhardt:
I tried with star 1.5 which is the version in openSUSE factory (and its gnutar). This version does not yet support xz compression.
You do know that tar does not really have to support any compression, because that can just be done through other programs piped to/from tar, don't you?
Yes, I know. But the "-a" option of GNU tar to auto-detect the used compression is very convenient. "-J" to use xz I consider also more convenient than to pipe the output through xz. This may be a matter of taste... A script would need logic to determine the compression type of an archive, maybe it even can not rely on the suffix, and then pipe it to the specific compression program. In another thread Jörg wrote that star has good detection of the file type - maybe this refers (also) to the compression type. Therefore I think the effort to pack this detection into a script makes no sense. This may again be a matter of taste... Dieter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org