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 19:17:50
Message-Id: 4915e5da.TXj4IQw/LxuM2r1g%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 Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 08:00:38PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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6 > > There are many pax implementations and the pax implementation that is usually
7 > > seen on Linux is based on GNU cpio.
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9 > Weird. The implementation that I've ever seen on Linux platforms is the BSD one.
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11 There are two different "BSD" pax implementations.
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13 As there is a new "archive library" on FreeBSD that tries to allow different
14 CLI implementation bases on the same basic code (similar to what star does),
15 there may even a third pax implementation on *BSD.
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17 Jörg
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