Date: 20 Jan 2003 17:26:47 +0000 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/archivers/untar pkg-descr Message-ID: <1043083606.2850.1391.camel@zaphod.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030120102435.GA93082@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <200301200854.h0K8slaE075823@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030120102435.GA93082@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 10:24, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:54:47AM -0800, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > edwin 2003/01/20 00:54:47 PST
> >
> > Modified files:
> > archivers/untar pkg-descr
> > Log:
> > Make pkg-descr a little bit more descriptive.
>
> +Tool to list and extract files from a "*.tgz" or "*.gz" archive
>
> Thanks, but I still don't see why this is useful. We have several at
> least two tools in the base system to extract tar archives (tar and
> pax). What extra functionality or justification does this port have?
bash-2.05b$ size untar /usr/bin/tar
text data bss dec hex filename
54872 4356 35904 95132 1739c untar
286039 6816 28304 321159 4e687 /usr/bin/tar
* AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT INFO:
* Written by Steve Kirkendall, kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu
* Placed in public domain, 6 October 1995
*
* Portions derived from inflate.c -- Not copyrighted 1992 by Mark
Adler
* version c10p1, 10 January 1993
It's small and it's unemcumbered, those are both good qualifications for
a flash-based appliance. Fair enough?
--
Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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