Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

From: David Schultz (das_at_FreeBSD.ORG)
Date: 01/15/04

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    Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:41:41 -0800
To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org>

    On Thu, Jan 15, 2004, Tim Kientzle wrote:
    > David Schultz wrote:
    > >
    > >... the package tools don't have an archive format
    > >that supports random access, so they wind up extracting a
    > >temporary copy of the whole archive, then processing the parts
    > >that they want.
    >
    > <grin> Funny you should mention this.
    >
    > As it turns out, random access is not necessary to avoid the
    > temporary copy. To prove it, I've written a pkg_add replacement
    > that extracts directly to the final location in a single
    > pass with no temporary directory and no need for random
    > access to the package file. In particular, it can extract
    > and install a package directly from stdin or an FTP site
    > with no disk overhead at all.
    [...]
    > My goal right now is just to clean up the existing package tools.
    > In particular, my new package tools will:
    > * have the same names as the current tools
    > * use the same command-line options (as far as possible <sigh>)
    > * use the exact same file format as the current tools
    > * be built from general-purpose modular library components

    I have only one thing to say in response to this news:

    SWEEEEET!
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