Subject: Re: -H formats to cpio
To: Krister Walfridsson <cato@df.lth.se>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 01/04/2003 10:22:12
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 07:06:55PM +0100, Krister Walfridsson wrote:

 > The current cpio does not handle the format names used by our old cpio.
 > This may break some scripts for users, and it does causes some problems
 > for pkgsrc (see PR 19140)
 > 
 > Any objection to adding the old format names too? i.e. to let
 > 
 >        bin = bcpio
 >        newc = sv4cpio
 >        crc = sv4crc
 > 
 > (after verifying that they really correspond to the same formats...)

This seems like a good thing to me.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>