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From: | ERSEK Laszlo |
Subject: | [Help-tar] Re: tar + lbzip2 proposal |
Date: | Tue, 6 Oct 2009 16:09:39 +0200 (CEST) |
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, ERSEK Laszlo wrote:
Proposal: * Usage: user prepends "--bzip2-filter=lbzip2" to her TAR_OPTIONS. * On Debian, the tar source could be patched, so that "bzip2_filter" defaults to "/etc/alternatives/bzip2-filter", which would be a symlink to /bin/bzip2 per default. Packages like "lbzip2" and "pbzip2" would add alternatives.
* User sets specific options for her choice of bzip2-filter by setting appropriate environment variables. For example,
export LBZIP2_WORKER_THREADS=2 export LBZIP2_PRINT_STATS=1 Thanks, lacos
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