troubles to extract bzip2 compressed tar file

2015-11-27 Thread Jiri Navratil
Hello, I have a server archive created with tar and bzip2 (via -j tar option) on OpenBSD 5.3 GENERIC#50 i386 Now, I'm trying to extract it on a new machine, but I'm getting error: cd /server doas tar xjf /path/whole_server_archive-20151101.tar.bz2 bzip2: I/O or other error, b

Re: bzip2

2013-06-07 Thread Darren Tucker
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Theo de Raadt wrote: [re Has anyone looked at zopfli] > If we did add it, it would only benefit the fast architectures, since > the others cannot afford the additional build time. Developers would > use up the space gains quickly. Right now a few architectures ar

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Theo de Raadt > wrote: > [...] > > If anyone thinks using this for the install or boot media is going to > > help, don't say a word until you can prove it on all platforms. > > Has anyone looked at zopfli[1] for the install media? It's a (apache > 2 licensed)

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Darren Tucker
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Theo de Raadt wrote: [...] > If anyone thinks using this for the install or boot media is going to > help, don't say a word until you can prove it on all platforms. Has anyone looked at zopfli[1] for the install media? It's a (apache 2 licensed) slightly better b

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Mark Kettenis
with C code. > >> > >> But even more so than with nl(1), why would we want to use something > >> that's different from what everybody else uses? If we want bzip2 in > >> base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should > >> s

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Theo de Raadt wrote: > It is primarily used by ports. Before t2k13, there were 739 .tar.bz2|.tbz2 distfiles--compared to 268 .tar.xz|.txz ones. I don't know how fast that balance is shifting. There are some 40 ports that directly depend on libbz2, and some 10 more that pull it in indirectly by

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Theo de Raadt
mething >> that's different from what everybody else uses? If we want bzip2 in >> base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should >> simply use the standard bzip2 code. > >I don't have a problem with importing bzip2, per se. But iirc previous >di

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Ted Unangst
x27;s different from what everybody else uses? If we want bzip2 in > base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should > simply use the standard bzip2 code. I don't have a problem with importing bzip2, per se. But iirc previous discussions basically ended with "it adds

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, David Coppa wrote: > > But even more so than with nl(1), why would we want to use something > > that's different from what everybody else uses? If we want bzip2 in > > base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should > > simpl

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread David Coppa
would we want to use something > that's different from what everybody else uses? If we want bzip2 in > base (and I think there are good reasons for having it) we should > simply use the standard bzip2 code. Seconded. ciao, David

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Mark Kettenis
> Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:59:39 -0400 > From: Ted Unangst > > Something that comes up from time to time is the question of whether > to import bzip2 into base or not. Turns out the question is moot > because already have imported it. There's a copy in perl. (I did

Re: bzip2

2013-06-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2013/06/06 08:04, Janne Johansson wrote: > If it covers that tar needs for "tar xjf bla.tbz2" to work then this would > be a good addition. That needs support for -d (and -c but we have that already).

Re: bzip2

2013-06-05 Thread Janne Johansson
If it covers that tar needs for "tar xjf bla.tbz2" to work then this would be a good addition. 2013/6/6 Ted Unangst > Something that comes up from time to time is the question of whether > to import bzip2 into base or not. Turns out the question is moot > because alrea

bzip2

2013-06-05 Thread Ted Unangst
Something that comes up from time to time is the question of whether to import bzip2 into base or not. Turns out the question is moot because already have imported it. There's a copy in perl. (I didn't know this until I happened to be watching a build closer than usual.) Since we alread