Call for Testers: bsdcpio
Greg Lewis
glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Sun Dec 30 11:37:16 PST 2007
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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