Bruce Dubbs wrote: > robert wrote: >> Neal Murphy wrote: >>> On Tuesday 07 December 2010 04:55:43 robert wrote: >>>> unpacked udev-161.tar.bz2 >>>> cd udev-161 >>>> then copy and paste ... (the two dearchive operations are "xvf"??? and >>>> not "jxvf"??? >>> 'tar xvf' unpacks a noncompressed tar archvie (.tar). >>> 'tar xvfj' unpacks a bz2-compressed archive (.tar.bz2). >>> 'tar xvfz' unpacks a gzip-compressed archive (.tar.gz, .tgz). >> So, I don't follow then. Instructions at > 6.59. Udev-161 >> say: tar -xvf ../udev-config-20100128.tar.bz2 ... >> why not *J*xvf? > > When extracting, GNU tar is smart enough to recognize the compression > type, if any, without being told. This capability has been in place for > several years. > > -- Bruce
Thanks. I'd examined the directories and all seemed nicely unpacked. Was just wondering if the absence of the bz2 filter was causing my udev problem. r. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
