Re: us.kernel.org mirroring inconsistency

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:25:48 +0100 (MET)


On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Steve VanDevender wrote:

[snip]

> Presumeably, the LKMS is only meant for end-users downloading a couple
> files, not for re-mirroring part of the archive. I don't think it is
> unreasonable in that case to require the user to get bzip2, considering
> its increasing popularity and benefits; at least it comes with most recent
> distributions. What would be nice is if tar supported bz2 directly so one
> could use "tar xvzf foo.tar.bz2".

try 'I' instead of 'z'... Should make the trick for you... Does for me at
least.

/David
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