Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#1789 closed enhancement (fixed)

please upgrade "tar"

Reported by: kaliber Owned by: axeld
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Command Line Tools Version: R1/pre-alpha1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

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

Change History (4)

comment:1 by nielx, 17 years ago

Any specific reason?

comment:2 by nielx, 17 years ago

Component: - General → - Applications/Command Line Tools

comment:3 by kaliber, 17 years ago

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

comment:4 by korli, 17 years ago

Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

updated in hrev24086

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