[Debian-olpc-devel] Converting from tar.bz2 to orig.tar.gz

Luke Faraone luke at faraone.cc
Thu Jan 22 13:13:41 UTC 2009


Try:

mkdir tmp; cd tmp; tar xvvf ../foo.tar.bz2; tar cvvf * ../foo.orig.tar.gz;
cd ..; rm -rf tmp

-lf
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Morgan Collett <morgan.collett at gmail.com>wrote:

> Is there a standard way of converting an upstream tarball from tar.bz2
> to orig.tar.gz? When I built some packages for Ubuntu and then later
> synced from Debian, the tarballs were different, and I want to avoid
> that happening again if possible.
>
> Regards
> Morgan
>
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