Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[Conrad J. Sabatier]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:36:02 -0800, Bakul Shah <bakul at BitBlocks.com>
wrote:

> What is the status of this bug?
> 
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=76294
> 
> [summary: certain gzipped tar files can't be untarred
> correctly with -z flag but work fine if with gzcat|tar xvf -]
> 
> Seems to me this bug needs to be fixed in bsdtar before gtar
> is removed (note: gtar does not have this problem).  In
> particular if zlib is buggy, either it needs to be upgraded
> or bsdtar needs to run compressed files through gzip.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- bakul

In a similar vein, I just discovered that KDE's "ark" can no longer
properly extract gzipped tar files:

tar: unrecognized option `--use-compress-program=gunzip'

Any chance of adding this option to bsdtar?

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"