Package: par2
Version: 0.4-6
Severity: normal
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par2 can only read the names of the files to be protected or repaired from
the command line, which has a limited size. It is therefore impossible to
protec
t a large number of files with common recovery par2 files (I think this is
best than having different par2 files associated with several different sets
of
files): an "Argument list too long" error occurs:
$ find ./ -name '*' -exec par2 c par.par2 {} +
find: par2: Liste d'arguments trop longue
In particular one cannot (or at least I cannot) generate par2 files to
protect the whole content of a backup DVD (and this is a current usage I
believe). T
he workaround that consists in creating one archive file (eg. with tar) and
then adding redundant data to it is unstisfying.
I suggest that par2 should have the capability to read the file names from
the standard input or from a file, like other programs do.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (10,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8
Versions of packages par2 depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-9 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
par2 recommends no packages.
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