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From: Max <mu@magi.net.ru>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: 29094@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29094: dired-do-compress creates empty archives
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 06:25:23 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171207032523.GA66149@magi.net.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bmjegd5s.fsf@users.sourceforge.net>

Noam Postavsky writes:

> So it's actually a bit surprising that the current values apparently
> work for most people.  I guess most GNU/Linux distros set the default
> to stdin?

I've investigated this a bit further. There is a DEFAULT_ARCHIVE
variable in GNU tar which is set at configuration time. The default
is '-'. Most distributions probably use the defaults.

In OpenBSD [1] and FreeBSD [2] makefiles for GNU tar DEFAULT_ARCHIVE
set to point to a tape drive. Probably to be consistent with tar(1)
provided in the base system which is also points to a tape drive.

> I assume you haven't assigned copyright to Emacs (so it should be
> marked as a tiny change)?

I haven't yet. As far as I know, these kind of small patches are
accepted without assigning a copyright. If not, please, let me know.

[1]: https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/archivers/gtar/Makefile?rev=1.78
[2]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/archivers/gtar/Makefile?revision=421635





  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07  3:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-31 23:33 bug#29094: dired-do-compress creates empty archives Max
2017-12-05  1:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2017-12-07  3:25   ` Max [this message]
2017-12-08  9:53     ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-08  9:51   ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-11 23:48     ` Noam Postavsky

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