[CentOS] schily tools
Dennis Clarke
dclarke at blastwave.org
Tue Feb 7 15:50:52 UTC 2012
> Let me comment some questions in one single mail:
>
>> My basic requirement with what I'm doing is to use standard tools and
>> formats so that archives I write today can be readable in 10 years.
>
> Star becomes 30 in 4 months, any archive created since it's early
> beginning in summer 1982 can still be read back.
I have been using it for about a decade or more and anything I dumped
has been a no brainer to retrieve, on any other OS or even architecture.
>> I don't think there is any such general consensus. Are you reading
>> something that favors Solaris/*bsd over GNU based systems?
>
> Schily tools (and in special star) implement support for Linux specific
> extensions. This is what you do not get from gtar at all. So why do Linux
> distros prefer gtar even though there is no Linux support?
Is there any correlation between this and the warning message I see during a
bootstrap like so :
Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include contains broken include files ***
Warning: *** /usr/src/linux/include is not used this reason ***
Warning: This may result in the inability to use recent Linux kernel
interfaces
Warning: *** linux/ext2_fs.h is not usable at all ***
Warning: *** This makes it impossible to support Linux file flags ***
You may try to compile using 'make COPTX=-DTRY_EXT2_FS'
>> I doubt if they are as well maintained in linux distros as the GNU
>> tool set, particularly in terms of having recent fixes backported into
>> the versions carried in enterprise distros.
>
> gtar still did not fix bugs I reported in 1993 (e.g. the bug that
> causes gtar to complain with "skipping to next header" even on it's
> own archives). I am thus sure that star not not worse than gtar....
There seems to be something missing here.
The subject was "schily tools" which is a lot more than star :
root at rsync:/etc/default# ls /opt/schily/bin
bosh cdrecord isodebug mdigest pfsh sfind
star ustar bsh change isodump mkhybrid
pxupgrade sformat star_sym ved btcflash compare isoinfo
mkisofs readcd sgrow suntar ved-e
calc copy isovfy mt sccs sh
tar ved-w
calltree count jsh od scgcheck smake
tartest
cdda2mp3 devdump label opatch scgskeleton smt
termcap
cdda2ogg gnutar lndir p scpio spatch
translit
cdda2wav hdump match pfbsh sdd spax
udiff
care to comment on any of these ? Certainly bosh needs a few words.
dc
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