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Feature #2731

add -a --auto feature to tar for gtar comptability

Added by Richard PALO over 8 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Milan Jurik
Category:
cmd - userland programs
Start date:
2012-05-13
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
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Description

from gtar --help

 Compression options:

  -a, --auto-compress   use archive suffix to determine the compression
                             program
  -I, --use-compress-program=PROG
                             filter through PROG (must accept -d)
  -j, --bzip2                filter the archive through bzip2
  -J, --xz                   filter the archive through xz
      --lzip                 filter the archive through lzip
      --lzma                 filter the archive through lzma
      --lzop
      --no-auto-compress     do not use archive suffix to determine the
                             compression program
  -z, --gzip, --gunzip, --ungzip   filter the archive through gzip
  -Z, --compress, --uncompress   filter the archive through compress

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tar_auto.diff (2.53 KB) tar_auto.diff Milan Jurik, 2012-05-31 05:07 PM
#1

Updated by Milan Jurik over 8 years ago

  • Assignee set to Milan Jurik
  • Tags deleted (needs-triage)

Currently we can add support for -a to be used on supported compression methods (j|J|z|Z). lzma/lzop/lzip are not used frequently and they are using only long opts which are not supported by our tar.

Also, it would be nice to have '-I PROG', to support any compression but we have -I occupied already by different functionality.

Additionally, 'a' has to be used explicitly so, support for long opt '--no-auto-compress' has no big benefit.

#2

Updated by Milan Jurik over 8 years ago

  • File tar_auto.diff tar_auto.diff added
  • Category set to cmd - userland programs
  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
#3

Updated by Garrett D'Amore over 8 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved

Resolved in:

changeset: 13710:3cee4ba952f0
tag: tip
user: Milan Jurik <>
date: Tue Jun 05 10:09:55 2012 -0700
description:
2730 tar misbehaves if compress utility missing
2731 add -a --auto feature to tar for gtar comptability
Reviewed by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <>
Reviewed by: Richard Lowe <>
Approved by: Garrett D'Amore <>

#4

Updated by Richard PALO about 8 years ago

came across a case that seems problematic, namely with tarballs 'in progress'....
Here I'm copying a huge (8g) tarball with my thunderbird profile ...
a comparison between gtar and tar follows:

richard@smicro:~$ tar tvfa vquinf2vg.tar.gz 
Decompressing 'vquinf2vg.tar.gz' with '/usr/bin/gzcat'...
-rw-r--r-- 101/10     104 févr.  8 11:19 2012 profiles.ini
tar: Removing leading '/' from '/tmp/PaxHeaders.1880/'
richard@smicro:~$ gtar tvfa vquinf2vg.tar.gz 
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff   104 2012-02-08 11:19 profiles.ini
drwx------ richard/staff     0 2012-09-09 15:55 vqinf2vg.default/
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff  7168 2012-09-09 09:41 vqinf2vg.default//permissions.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff     0 2012-09-09 15:50 vqinf2vg.default//.parentlock
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff 163840 2011-11-09 10:58 vqinf2vg.default//formhistory.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff 229376 2012-08-27 09:34 vqinf2vg.default//content-prefs.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff 425984 2012-08-31 11:29 vqinf2vg.default//extensions.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff  63488 2012-09-07 21:13 vqinf2vg.default//downloads.sqlite
-rw-r--r-- richard/staff 122322944 2012-09-09 14:00 vqinf2vg.default//global-messages-db.sqlite
^C

The tarball was created entirely on the source machine which subsequently is scp'ing to the receiving machine, where the above is invoked....

#5

Updated by Milan Jurik about 8 years ago

At first, this CR was resolved 3 months ago, so there is no point in updating it.

At second, I do not understand what you want to say - do you want to say tar was unable to untar the archive? Contact me outside of the issue tracker at first, by e-mail.

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