Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

From: Tim Kientzle (kientzle_at_acm.org)
Date: 01/16/04

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To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>

    Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> writes:
    >
    >>How? Easy. Use libarchive to extract the packing
    >>list---which is always the first archive entry---
    >
    > Ass, U, Me.

    The current package tools do gaurantee that
    the packing list is always first in the archive.
    This was done a long time ago in an attempt
    to speed up pkg_add (which currently forks
    tar twice, once to extract just the packing
    list and then again to extract everything).

    Tim

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