Removing the dependency on unzip - use bsdtar

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Jan 23 08:01:32 PST 2006


On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:04:45PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > I wonder whether it's really worthwhile given the effort.
> 
> Well, it will take some time to fix all those ports, but I'm willing to
> fix as much ports as possible. One of my classmates would like to help
> me with that, because he wants to learn more about the ports tree's
> internals anyway, so effort isn't a real big issue.
> 
> We just want to be sure that our effort won't get trashed ;-)

Can you develop a prototype patch that DTRT on all supported versions
(e.g. 4.x where you can't use bsdtar, or at least you have to use the
port?), and converts a representative sample of ports so that we can
see the impact?

Kris

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