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

[Joerg Schilling]

Gordon Ross <gordon.w.ross at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> I would hereby like to propose that we remove tar, pax, cpio, and even
> >> rmt (which exists to support tar), from the illumos-gate consolidation.
> >
> > let me ask the obvious question: is any of these used/required for a
> > successful build?
> >
> > Michael
>
> I think the miniroot build and runtime uses cpio.
> Don't have time to look right now.

Many procedures in Solaris depend on cpio and unfortunately, they even depend 
on undocumented features from cpio. pkgadd(1) is such a candidate. Star 
implements the needed features, so it is even possible to replace the Sun 
programs by star. Note that the GNU variants of the utilities do not implement 
the needed features and thus cannot replace the sun programs.

Jörg

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