From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Philippe Ney <philippe.ney@pardes.ws>
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:34:59 +0100
Subject: [Buildroot] patch: target/cpio
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> >+config BR2_PACKAGE_CPIO
> >+	bool "cpio"
> >+	default n
> >+	help
> >+	  Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives
> >+	  (Busybox cpio doesn't support archive generation)
> 
> We should rather add write support to busybox's ar/cpio et al, IMO.
> 

Yes sure. It was just more simple for me to use the cpio sources rather
than working on Busybox ones.

As this seems to be of interests for Goetz Bock, I posted.

Philippe