Re: The tar format problem continues

On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 04:16:47PM +0100, Jostein Chr. Andersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 March 2004 15.27, Tobias Ringstr?m wrote:
> > USTAR
>
> I hope I don't offend somebody, but may I suggest this again?
>
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/star/
>
> I think we should avoid a zip files if possible. It's size will be around
> 8.6MB with high (-9) compression with info-zip's zip:
>
> zip -9 subversion-1.0.1.zip -r subversion-1.0.1

There are two problems here.

1) Availability of non-buggy archivers.

star apparently can solve the problem of a buggy archiver. But it's
not packaged for a lot of systems. pax is apparently available by
default on some systems, or available on others. star isn't.

2) Availability of archivers that read the same archives.

But even if we use star. It doesn't solve the problem with winzip.
Winzip aparently doens't read ustar formated archives. Which is the
POSIX standard tar format. So even if we use star to produce ustar
formats, winzip won't be able to handle them.

*sigh*

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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