From 21110a0aa2bda7346bdd916bbc027dfa38ee7c12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glenn L McGrath Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 01:45:48 +0000 Subject: Fix long standing bug with old gnu tar files, add a check so tar will complain "unknown file type" if it tries to extract an oldgnu tar file and TAR_FEATURE_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY sint defined. Print a warning if unisupported gnu extensions are encountered. --- archival/Config.in | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'archival/Config.in') diff --git a/archival/Config.in b/archival/Config.in index affde32c8..cc65b6db4 100644 --- a/archival/Config.in +++ b/archival/Config.in @@ -182,26 +182,29 @@ config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP help Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. -config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLD_FORMAT +config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_OLDGNU_COMPATABILITY bool " Enable support for old tar header format" - default n + default N depends on CONFIG_TAR help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + This option is required to unpack archives created with + in the old GNU format, help to kill this old format by + repacking your ancient archives with the new format. -config CONFIG_FEATURE_GNUTAR_LONG_FILENAME - bool " Enable support for GNU long filenames" +config CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GNU_EXTENSIONS + bool " Enable support for some GNU tar extensions" default y depends on CONFIG_TAR help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + With this option usybox supports the GNU long filename + and linkanmes. config CONFIG_FEATURE_UNARCHIVE_TAPE bool " Enable tape drive support" default n depends on CONFIG_TAR || CONFIG_CPIO help - Please submit a patch to add help text for this item. + I dont think this is needed anymore. config CONFIG_UNCOMPRESS bool "uncompress" -- cgit v1.2.3