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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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