From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 14 03:31:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5F616A4CE for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:31:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.ciam.ru (mail.ciam.ru [213.147.57.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB1B43D3F for ; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 03:31:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sem@ciam.ru) Received: from sem.ciam.ru ([192.168.45.10] helo=ciam.ru) by mail.ciam.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.x) id 1BDhfT-000IbJ-4f; Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:30:55 +0400 Message-ID: <407D1338.5090800@ciam.ru> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:32:24 +0400 From: Sergey Matveychuk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Reilly References: <20040414042233.GA12776@gurney.reilly.home> In-Reply-To: <20040414042233.GA12776@gurney.reilly.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Garance A Drosihn cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Second "RFC" on pkg-data idea for ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 10:31:02 -0000 Andrew Reilly wrote: > an archiver. There are several archivers in the tree already > (pax, tar, cpio, (zip is in ports, too)). Why not just use > one of those? All of these have command line arguments to I think we don't want a binary format because of CVS can't work with it well. As kris says shar will be much better. But as I can see it's not easy to extract separate file from it. And extracting in STDOUT too. -- Sem.