Re: [Bug-tar] Solution to updating compressed archives: Pre-compress files

[Joerg Schilling]

Tim Kientzle <address@hidden> wrote:

> Actually, if all you really want is the ability to append to an existing 
> compressed archive, just do it.
>   1) gunzip already handles concatenated compressed files.  If you append two 
> gzipped files, the output from gunzip will be the concatenation of the 
> uncompressed files.
>    2) GNU tar already has the hack you need to read such files:  
> --ignore-zeros

And there is the problem: such an archive would violate the standard.

Jörg

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