Re: [Bug-tar] Feature request (patch): ignore requested members missing in archive

[Joerg Schilling]

Vladimir A. Pavlov <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Well, there are many options in gtar that do not follow a scheme but just 
> > serve 
> > a single purpose. For this reason, they are hard to remember.
> > 
> > The current proposal would be covered by a general method in star:
> > 
> >     errctl=
> > 
> > See: http://cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/man/star/star.1.html
> > 
> > page 21 ff.
>
> After the first look star seems to have the features I need (though in my case
> I have to actively use gnu tar specific
> --exclude/--recursion/--anchored/--wildcards so a deeper research is needed
> to understand whether I can implement what I need using star) and appears
> to be maintained the last two years (but the absense of releases from 2009 
> till
> 2013 is not a good sign imho).

??? Are you talking about star release strategy?
New star releases are made availabe on a regular base - I believe more 
frequently 
that gtar. There never was a pause since 1982.

In the time between January 2009 and December 2012, there have been 230 file 
edits in 111 edit groups. The related deltas have been made availabe as 41 
separate releases in tar archives. So there is a new public release with an 
average frequency of one every 5 weeks. I hope this helps.

Regarding your options....

Star supports -D, -V and pattern matching via pat= since a significant time 
before 
gtar exists. Gtar did not choose to be compatible, but this is not my fault.

Since 9 years, star in addition links to libfind and thus supports the find(1) 
syntax inherently via -find. This allows much more poweful selections than with 
a simple pattern matcher that of course is still present in star.


Jörg

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