Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:43:57 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <brandon@dvalentine.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types... Message-ID: <3E864BDD.9040102@acm.org> References: <3E42C148.4050807@acm.org> <20030329012828.GA32891@intruder.bmah.org> <3E85418F.8010201@acm.org> <20030329072156.GO3528@geekpunk.net>
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Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:47:43PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>P.S. It's galled me for a while that pkg_add has to fork 'tar' to >>extract the archive. I've started piecing together a library that >>reads/writes tarfiles. > > FYI, libtar[0] is BSD-licensed and might be useful to such a project. > > [0] - http://www-dev.cites.uiuc.edu/libtar/ Thanks for the pointer. I took a look, and there are some good ideas there, although my current libtarfile work has a few features that libtar lacks. Cribbing from libtar could be useful, though. (I'm also using John Gilmore's old PD tar as a source of ideas.) Tim
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