Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:58:32 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/cpio Makefile bsdcpio.1 cmdline.c config_freebsd.h cpio.c cpio.h cpio_platform.h err.c matching.c matching.h pathmatch.c pathmatch.h src/usr.bin/cpio/test Makefile main.c test.h test_0.c test_basic.c test_format_newc.c ... Message-ID: <20080528135832.GA14844@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1211981232.1637.5.camel@localhost> References: <200805261715.m4QHFZUK070554@repoman.freebsd.org> <20080526172717.GA93432@freebsd.org> <483AFE87.6020103@freebsd.org> <20080528013528.GA97270@dragon.NUXI.org> <1211981232.1637.5.camel@localhost>
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On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:27:12AM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 18:35 -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 11:16:39AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote: > > > I'm looking forward to when we can remove both GNU cpio and our current > > > pax implementation from the tree, > > > > I don't see a reason to remove pax from the tree. It is already BSDL'ed > > and is faster than libarchive based archivers. Please take this a > > request to not remove pax. > > I am reading this as "replace pax with a libarchive-based pax". Correct > me if I am wrong, Please read this as: "Please don't touch pax". It works fine as-is, is small, is only used by folks that know it exists (many BSD users don't), is BSDL'ed, pretty much cause no harm or extra work for us, etc... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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