On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> Hi all,
> for the use in pkg_install I want to import libarchive
> (http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/)
>
> There are two important questions for me.
>
> (a) Do we want the full distribution including bsdtar and regression
> tests in base? My current plan would involve just the libarchive
> subdirectory without tests and the README file from the main directory.
>
> (b) Do we want to keep it in src/dist or not? I don't think local
> changes will occur, so I'm perfectly fine with the former.

I don't have any objection against libarchive, but I'm not sure for bsdtar.

What's the benefit of it, compared with our pax-as-tar?

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