Bug 134271

Summary:	.tgz is typo'd to .tbz
Product:	[OLD] Docs on www.gentoo.org	Reporter:	joe cave <joe>
Component:	Installation Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
URL:	http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description joe cave 2006-05-24 16:29:31 UTC

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6

Under the 'Requirements' section, there is a small typo of .tgz

Currently reads:
(by the way, a tarball is just a file ending in .tbz or .tar.gz). 

I assume .tbz should be .tgz or is it another extension of .bz2?

Comment 1 nm (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-26 13:09:38 UTC

Nope, you read it correctly. tar (.tar) with bzip2 compression (.bz2) can be displayed as .tar.bz2 or .tbz. tar with gzip compression is .tgz. Heck, and that's just naming convention. In Linux, you can give files any extension that you want; programs look at the header of the file to see what kind it is, not at the extension (unlike Windows).

The document is fine.