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From: Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 14:12:07
Message-Id: 1210169520.1464.16.camel@nc.nor.wtbts.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage by Mart Raudsepp
1 On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 16:23 +0300, Mart Raudsepp wrote:
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3 > I'd be happy if some other unpacker is used than lzma-utils - one that
4 > does not depend on libstdc++ - I'm sure it can be done, heck it's done
5 > in integrated form in some other projects in less than a couple
6 > kilobytes of code for the unpacking from a VFS. Meanwhile please
7 > consider using the upstream provided .tar.gz tarballs instead and not
8 > roll patchsets in .lzma just cause you can.
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10 busybox has unlzma and seems to be a part of "system".
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12 Should also be easy to create a really tiny unlzma from the busybox
13 source and ship with portage, or create a patch for tar or something.
14
15 -nc
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Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: lzma tarball usage Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>