On 07/04/2009 03:11 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > 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 :) Its not there in RHEL 4, its there in RHEL 5. --CJD -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
