Ticket #1789 (closed enhancement: fixed)

Opened 11 months ago

Last modified 11 months ago

please upgrade "tar"

Reported by: kaliber Owned by: axeld
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Command Line Tools Version: R1 development
Cc: Blocked By:
Platform: All Blocking:

Description

Please upgrade "tar" from 1.13.94 to ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.19.tar.bz2

Change History

Changed 11 months ago by nielx

Any specific reason?

Changed 11 months ago by nielx

  • component changed from - General to - Applications/Command Line Tools

Changed 11 months ago by kaliber

Tar 1.19 is newer and less annoying for me.

Since 1.14(?) tar auto detects compression type:

e.g with a new tar you can use: 

tar xf test.tar.gz
tar xf test.tar.bz2

with the current Haiku version you have to: 

tar xfz test.tar.gz
tar xfj test.tar.bz2

Changed 11 months ago by korli

  • status changed from new to closed
  • resolution set to fixed

updated in r24086

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