Stéphane Peter

Hi, Yes that is an interesting improvement, however the main problem with this is that $PIPESTATUS is a Bashism. It would only be available on systems where Bash is the...

You can use the `--append` flag to add files to an archive, however if you intend to replace files or otherwise modify the previous archives, you'll have to recreate it...

OK, I'll look into it.

That's interesting, but aren't you basically just admitting that this is a problem with your system returning incorrect sizes, instead of with makeself itself? I'm pretty sure that `--block-size` option...

Interesting idea, but yeah right now the script uses $0 to determine its actual location (since it needs to call tar and other commands on itself). I'm not sure how...

OK, I don't have busybox handy but if you come up with a fix I'll merge it.

One of the uses I have had for makeself is to append customer-specific files (say a license file and other small things) to a bigger archive for the rest of...

gzip is currently run separately from tar so the extra argument would have no effect. We could add some code to check for the presence of `pigz` as an alternative...

I don't remember seeing a pull request for this and it's quite possible it was closed without it being proposed. However I'd be OK with having a command-line option to...

Please check if this is still an issue in v2.5.0 - I made some fixes to this area of the code recently.