[jira] [Closed] (COMPRESS-121) Add support for different tar dialects

["Stefan Bodewig (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-121?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Stefan Bodewig closed COMPRESS-121.
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    Resolution: Fixed

we likely don't cover everything but POSIX and star support are at a decent level by now.  Anything that's missing should go into new tickets rather than keeping this broad ticket around.

Yes, I know I have opened it myself.
                
> Add support for different tar dialects
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: COMPRESS-121
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-121
>             Project: Commons Compress
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Archivers
>    Affects Versions: 1.0, 1.1
>            Reporter: Stefan Bodewig
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: tar
>
> Right now the tar classes handle ustar and oldgnu (and to a certain degree pax) but there are way more dialects out there.  In particular we should support the POSIX format.
> https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25704 in Ant's bug tracker contains code that is supposed to support the Solaris variant (of 2003).
> So far I've only seen people ask for POSIX but not contributing patches. 

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