Goswin Brederlow wrote: > the Author of tar changed the --bzip option again. This time its even > worse than the last time, since -I is still a valid option but with a > totally different meaning. > > This totally changes the behaviour of tar and I would consider that a > critical bug, since backup software does break horribly with the new > semantic.
Yes, I think that this should definetely be changed back. The first time I encountered this problem, I thought that the tar.bz2 archive was broken from the error message tar reported. (Not a valid tar archive or so.) This change is confusing and unreasonable IMHO. Roland -- Roland Bauerschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
