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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tar for the base revision
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tar for the base revision |
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Wed, 24 Sep 2003 01:10:16 +0100 |
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On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 07:18:13PM -0400, Miles Bader wrote:
> > * archival programs that stick to a credible standard
> >
> > * archival programs that are (essentially) universally ported
> > or implemented
> >
> > * archival programs without stupid, arbitrary limits
>
> How is cpio by these measures? I personally dislike it because I find the
> user-interface annoying, but I note that many distro package formats seem to
> use it (e.g., dpkg, rpm), which suggest that it might have some good
> properties.
It doesn't. dpkg does not use cpio; it uses ar and tar.
rpm does not use cpio, it uses cpio-plus-gunk, to work around one of
the worst limitations of cpio:
It does not store the owner and group by name.
So rpm appends some extra data which it then uses to extract the files
with the correct user and group.
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