This one time, at band camp, Kris Kvilekval said:
>
> The original backup code in deluser first writes the tar file, and then
> compresses it.
> This patch simply uses some gnu tar options (already required) to accomplish
> the same. This is useful when backup up over NFS.
> if($bzip2) {
> ! $options .= "--bzip2";
> ! $ext = ".bz2";
> } elsif($gzip) {
> ! $options .= "--gzip";
> ! $ext = ".gz";
> }
> + &systemcall($tar, "-c" , $options, "-f", $backup_name.$ext,
> "--files-from", $filesfilename);This will leave a file named '$backup.tar.' in the case that both of those compressors are missing, I think. Otherwise, it seems reasonable. I'll look at merging it in shortly. Thanks for the report, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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