Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

From: John Baldwin (john_at_baldwin.cx)
Date: 01/16/04

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    To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:26:53 -0500

    On Friday 16 January 2004 02:17 pm, Eivind Eklund wrote:
    > On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:12:24PM +0100, 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.
    >
    > I believe the packing list being first in the archive is part of
    > the definition of the package format, and that it was done this
    > way to make it should be possible to access the way Tim describes.
    >
    > If my memory fails me, I suggest we make it a required invariant.

    Yes, this seems to be a valid requirement and one that the existing
    pkg_create(8) already fulfills. 

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John Baldwin <john@baldwin.cx>  <><  http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/
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