archivers/unzip vs tar -xf

Eir Nym eirnym at gmail.com
Mon Jun 6 17:20:32 UTC 2011


Since FreeBSD 5.4.0-Release libarchive(3) support to unpack zip files.
Why not to use it to unpack distributives to workdir?

I've downloaded all distros and tried to unpack them all with tar(1)
with no problems. I use FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r222717.

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  Yours, Eir Nym


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