From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>,
dcinege@psychosis.com, andersen@codepoet.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list.
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 18:02:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DC6FC7C.7080105@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20021104195229.C1407@almesberger.net
Werner Almesberger wrote:
>Rob Landley wrote:
>
>
>>Yeah, cpio is a pain and change to use, but so is tar.
>>
>>
>
>Somebody who strogly dislikes cpio could just write wrapper accepting
>tar-style options. Or add a --cpio option to GNU tar, that switches
>to using the cpio format. One could even try to auto-detect the
>format when reading :-)
>
>- Werner (hates cpio, but not enough)
>
>
Well, FWIW, "pax" deprecates both cpio and tar.
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/utilities/pax.html
In theory pax turns cpio and tar into shell scripts.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-04 22:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-28 2:17 Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list Rob Landley
2002-10-28 8:25 ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-28 9:55 ` Skip Ford
2002-10-28 10:35 ` Vamsi Krishna S .
2002-10-28 10:29 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 10:40 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 12:15 ` Nicholas Wourms
2002-10-28 13:31 ` Dave Jones
2002-10-28 14:05 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 14:42 ` Andrew Walrond
2002-10-28 15:02 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-30 7:29 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 7:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 8:22 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 8:37 ` Russell King
2002-10-30 9:32 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 8:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 8:51 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30 9:00 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30 9:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 9:19 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30 9:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 9:38 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30 9:42 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30 10:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 9:34 ` Russell King
2002-10-30 10:07 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 9:36 ` Erik Andersen
2002-10-30 10:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 9:55 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 9:59 ` Miles Bader
2002-10-30 10:24 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 10:14 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:24 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 10:42 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 11:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-30 9:55 ` Dave Cinege
2002-10-30 10:29 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-04 2:13 ` Rob Landley
2002-11-04 7:39 ` Help needed with IRQ on Ali chipset Jacek Pliszka
2002-11-04 13:10 ` Abbott and Costello meet Crunch Time -- Penultimate 2.5 merge candidate list Alan Cox
2002-11-04 22:52 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-11-04 23:02 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-11-04 18:16 ` Rob Landley
2002-11-04 23:22 ` Werner Almesberger
2002-10-30 14:32 ` Alan Cox
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