Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:00:42
Message-Id: 4915e1d6.TcfI1ERcuqNMgdFM%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives by Nicolas Sebrecht
1 Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net> wrote:
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4 > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:46:30AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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6 > > SUSv2 is the latest standard that includes tar.
7 >
8 > And we should use pax instead of tar looking to SUSv3.
9 >
10 > Not sure pax can internaly deal with lzma file format.
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12 There are many pax implementations and the pax implementation that is usually
13 seen on Linux is based on GNU cpio. This program has more problems than GNU
14 tar...
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16 Jörg
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Re: [gentoo-user] lzma archives Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev@×××××××.net>