>>>>> Michael Stone writes:
(snip flamage)
ms> I don't know whether any amount of discussion will convince
ms> the upstream tar maintainers to undo this, but I certainly
ms> hope that the debian version at least prevents serious silent
ms> breakage by either reverting the change to -I and printing a
ms> message that the option is deprecated or removing the -I flag
ms> entirely.
The tar maintainer is closing bug reports related to this problem as
quickly as they come in, or else I would send this to the BTS, but for
the meantime, here is an uncompiled patch:
--- tar.c.orig Sun Oct 29 17:36:32 2000
+++ tar.c Sun Jan 7 12:39:57 2001
@@ -362,7 +362,7 @@
PATTERN at list/extract time, a globbing PATTERN\n
\
-o, --old-archive, --portability write a V7 format archive\n\
--posix write a POSIX format archive\n\
- -j, --bzip2 filter the archive through bzip2\n\
+ -I, -j --bzip2 filter the archive through bzip2\n\
-z, --gzip, --ungzip filter the archive through gzip\n\
-Z, --compress, --uncompress filter the archive through compress\n\
--use-compress-program=PROG filter through PROG (must accept -d)\n"),
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@
\n\
Local file selection:\n\
-C, --directory=DIR change to directory DIR\n\
- -T, -I, --files-from=NAME get names to extract or create from file NAME\n\
+ -T, --files-from=NAME get names to extract or create from file NAME\n\
--null -T reads null-terminated names, disable -C\n\
--exclude=PATTERN exclude files, given as a globbing PATTERN\n\
-X, --exclude-from=FILE exclude globbing patterns listed in FILE\n\
@@ -674,6 +674,11 @@
ignore_zeros_option = 1;
break;
+ case 'I':
+ fprintf(stderr,
+"%s: Warning: the use of the I flag will soon mean --files-from
+for compatibility with Solaris tar. Please use the j flag instead
+when you mean --bzip2.", program_name);
case 'j':
set_use_compress_program_option ("bzip2");
break;
@@ -796,7 +801,7 @@
break;
case 'T':
- case 'I': /* for compatibility with Solaris tar */
+/* case 'I': /* for compatibility with Solaris tar */
files_from_option = optarg;
break;
--
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