[illumos-Developer] ejecting the archivers from illumos-gate

[Edward Tomasz Napierała]

Wiadomość napisana przez Garrett D'Amore w dniu 2010-11-29, o godz. 19:32:
> Whereas:
> 
> * there are many different archivers handing cpio, tar, pax, and
> "proprietary" (or tool-specific) variants, and
> 
> * the tools themselves generally rely only upon POSIX APIs, and
> 
> * pax (the POSIX compliant tool) is currently closed source, and
> 
> * tar is itself usually replaced by GNU tar or star in distributions,
> and
> 
> * integrating schily tar in illumos-gate has proven to be "unreasonably
> challenging",
> 
> * GNU tar is not suitable for integration for a variety of reasons, and
> 
> * ksh93's versions of pax, tar, and cpio has been found lacking in other
> respects,

Notably missing is libarchive, which on FreeBSD and MacOS X provides
tar(1) and cpio(1).

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