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Date:      Mon, 6 Jun 2011 23:40:22 +0400
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov@gmail.com>
To:        Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
Cc:        Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Mail Lists <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: archivers/unzip vs tar -xf
Message-ID:  <20110606194022.GA24220@procyon.xvoid.org>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikZiSUoQ9tSjc_LkRW__9B%2BWHkUFQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 11:50:36AM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eir Nym <eirnym@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Since FreeBSD 5.4.0-Release libarchive(3) support to unpack zip files.
> > Why not to use it to unpack distributives to workdir?
> >
> > I've downloaded all distros and tried to unpack them all with tar(1)
> > with no problems. I use FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r222717.
>=20
> I think the reason is that at the beginning tar(1) does not work for a
> little fraction of distfiles, but yes, I think it's reasonable to take
> a step forward and add a new option to force using the info-zip
> implementation.

We already have /usr/bin/unzip, built around the libarchive. You can
check this (?, not sure) list archives as to why it isn't used by
default.


Yuri

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