Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:52:31 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar Message-ID: <400824DF.6060604@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpr7y0i1uv.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <4004D445.7020205@acm.org> <20040115182532.GA26149@VARK.homeunix.com> <4006E337.7000404@acm.org> <20040115204458.GA27244@VARK.homeunix.com> <400705FF.7090709@acm.org> <xzpr7y0i1uv.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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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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