Bug 30206

Summary:	tar arguments have changed since 7.0
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Ed Marshall <esm>
Component:	tar	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Ed Marshall 2001-03-01 20:40:41 UTC

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The arguments to "tar" for decompressing bzip2'd files on-the-fly have
changed since the 7.0 release; instead of using "-I" for decompressing
bzip2'd data, the argument is now "-j". "-I" is completely ignored.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
cp /etc/passwd blah.txt
tar cvvf blah.tar blah.txt
bzip2 -9 blah.tar
tar Ixvvf blah.tar.bz2 (on 7.0)
tar jxvvf blah.tar.bz2 (on fisher or wolverine)

Not that this is a real painful change, but it appears to have been
gratuitously made incompatible without any documentation of the fact. Looks
like a note for the release notes, more than anything.

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-03-01 20:47:34 UTC

While this is not a bug, we agree and reverted tar to the old behavior in
1.13.19-2.