Diffing compressed tarballs

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Sep 9, 2011, at 19:19, Arno Hautala wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 20:14, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>> It doesn't seem to recognize the .tbz2 extension we use; I'll try to patch it.
> 
> It should, there's a case for it.

The case is for .bz2, not .tbz2.


> I'm thinking it's probably an issue
> of BSD vs GNU. I'm installing gnutar right now to see if that fares
> any better.


gnutar does not produce an error, but I also still don't see a diff.


Another problem could be that it wants to unpack both tarballs to the same temp directory, and both tarballs contain files and directories of the same names...