On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 23:19 -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 15:00 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 10:43:34 +0100, > > Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > but it's actually a lot less trouble to just do: > > > > > > "tar xf dracut-$version.tar.bz2" > > > > > > which auto-detects the archive type. It's much easier to just let it be > > > handled by autodetection, and only bother specifying the archive type > > > manually if the autodetection trips up. > > > > How long has that feature been there? > > I'm as amused as you are that I didn't know about that either (my guess > is it's been there a while and we're just all stuck in our ways). At > least we're not stuck in the 1970s and willing to move with the times - > a lot of people still like to use pipes of the individual utilities ;) I only figured it out last year, actually. By accident I think :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
