> > that never have been
> > in the original software and because no bugs are fixed since nearly 6
> > months.
>
> Latest *RELEASE* was at 2007/05/06. Latest *RELEASE* of cdrecord
> is dated 09.09.2004.
There was a typo, it's 5 not 6 months.
Latest release cdrtools: September 3rd. Number of c
"b.n." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The reason why Debian started this is the missing will for quality oriented
> > cooperation by a single person: "Eduard Bloch".
> >
> > The reason why other Linux distributions followed Debian is that they
> > believed
> > the lies spread by Eduard Bloch.
>
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:44:20 +0200, b.n. wrote:
> In our case: if you use a tool like that in your scripts and suddenly
> the Gentoo devs feel that tool has to be removed/replaced (not the case
> of cdrtools in Gentoo apparently, but...), you are in trouble.
In this case, that shouldn't be a prob
Hi Joerg,
Quite an honour to receive a mail from you. :)
> The reason why Debian started this is the missing will for quality oriented
> cooperation by a single person: "Eduard Bloch".
>
> The reason why other Linux distributions followed Debian is that they believed
> the lies spread by Eduard
Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto:
> and I for myself drop cdrkit in every place I find it and replace it with the
> imo working tool named cdrecord.
Sure, your choice.
>> The problem is that of a tool that for licence etc. problems could be
>> easily be dropped from a distribution. It's of a r
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 00:26:51 schrieb b.n.:
> Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto:
> > Am Montag, 24. September 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar:
> >> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY
> >> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest moron
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:14:58 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> Back to tar: Why use "tar -j" in scripts, when "bzip2 | tar"
> does the same thing? I very much disagree that "tar -j" is
> the "better" option here;
Either way requires that you first determine the type of compression used
before you c
Michael Schreckenbauer ha scritto:
> Am Montag, 24. September 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar:
>> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY
>> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons
>> on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use c
Am Montag, 24. September 2007 schrieb Alexander Skwar:
> To keep GNU tar, you mean? Well, there's at least a reason to not ONLY
> have star: Star is made by Jörg Schilling, one of the biggest morons
> on the earth. Guess why some distributions no longer use cdrecord but
> switched to cdrkit?
Keep
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:34:41 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> What does this have to do with GNU tar and it adding superflous
> options? Quite a lot. -j et.al. are non-standard options. If a
> (badly written) script relies on the presence of -j, this script
> won't work with a POSIX compliant tar
On 24 Sep 2007, at 09:30, Alexander Skwar wrote:
...
and if p7zip supports pipes, you don't need its support in tar.
Just pipe
from/to it.
It does and that's the way it's supposed to be used on unix, according
to its manpage.
GNU tar features the -j, -z and -Z options. These are much more
Alexander Skwar schrieb:
> Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> star supports p7zip which can be much better and especially more
>> flexible than bzip2, gzip and zip.
>
> Uhm, what's bad about
>
> tar cf - | p7zip
It's a bit cumbersome to create a pipe each time I access
12 matches
Mail list logo
