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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: xmw@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: vcs-snapshot-r1.eclass -- a better eclass for VCS snapshots (and others)
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:45:38
Message-Id: 20120612164559.73accd70@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: vcs-snapshot-r1.eclass -- a better eclass for VCS snapshots (and others) by Michael Weber
1 On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:09:54 +0200
2 Michael Weber <xmw@g.o> wrote:
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7 > On 06/11/2012 04:25 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
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9 > > Committed onto vcs-snapshot.eclass after fixing all in-tree users.
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12 > Thanks for the update.
13 >
14 > One suggestion:
15 >
16 > Have you thought about using bsdtar from app-arch/libarchive instead
17 > of GNU ones? You'll need an additional dependency, but it has zip file
18 > support and I've verified the options you use work [1].
19 >
20 > To be clear, I prefer tar over zip, too, but you can restore do not
21 > prefer zip over tar, but you can restore the lost zip functionality
22 > (plus others i assume).
23
24 Thanks for the idea. I will be happy to go that way if someone actually
25 requests zipfile support.
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28 Best regards,
29 Michał Górny

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