Re: Call for Testers: bsdcpio

From: Greg Lewis <glewis_at_eyesbeyond.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 11:24:58 -0800
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 10:27:24PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> The current portable distribution of libarchive, available from:
> 
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/
> 
> includes a new "bsdcpio" front-end that I would like
> to include in FreeBSD 8 as a replacement for GNU cpio.
> I would like to make it available as an option (but not
> the default) starting in FreeBSD 7.1.
> 
> I'd appreciate any feedback on it.  The easiest way to
> install it right now is to download the distribution above
> and:
>    ./configure --enable-bsdcpio
>    make
>    sudo make install

Actually, now that I've just updated it, the easiest way is now probably

cd /usr/ports/archivers/libarchive && make install

Thanks for your continued work on libarchive Tim!

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Received on Sun Dec 30 2007 - 18:37:15 UTC

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