Heads up: gtar gone from base system

[David Schultz]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2005, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
> In addition, bsdtar actually ignores the -z
> flag on extraction in favor of libarchive's automatic
> compression detection.

FWIW, I really like this feature.

> I recommend submitting a change to the "ark" maintainers suggesting
> they use "-z" (which is implemented by many different tar programs)
> rather than the gtar-specific --use-compress-program=gunzip.
> When testing bsdtar against the ports collection, we found that
> most programs can be easily tweaked to work equally well with
> either bsdtar or gtar.
> 
> If the primary maintainers are uninterested in this change, ark
> can be patched in the port to use "-z" or to use gtar.  (I just
> noticed that the current port of "ark" depends on gtar.)

If this is really a problem for lots of ports (which I highly
doubt), a quick fix would be to accept --use-compress-program as
an undocumented option and ignore it.  This would give these
broken ports a better chance of working.