Bug 405273

Summary:	app-arch/pax - add bzip2 support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Fabio Correa <facorread>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	NeedPatch
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Fabio Correa 2012-02-22 14:26:42 UTC

Hello, keep up the good work.

pax-3.3.4 has bzip2 integration via the -j option. But pax-3.4.12.16 lacks it. So the stabilization makes it difficult to handle archives that have already been compressed with bzip2.

For reference, please see http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/bin/pax/options.c#rev1.70

You can also check the manpage.

Comment 1 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-02-23 12:11:40 UTC

That patch doesn't apply to this version (this comes from fedora), I also have failed to see any distribution providing that bzip2 support, either an updated patch is needed or try to build latest pax snapshot :-/

Also looks like debian moved to mirbsd pax instead of openbsd one :|

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2012-02-24 19:34:13 UTC

Do you know the CVS command to get sources from openbsd? I couldn't find it :S