BSD tar (was Re: Making pkg_XXX tools smarter about file types...)

[Tim Kientzle]

Wes Peters wrote:

> On Friday 28 March 2003 22:47, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>>With this [tar library], it should be possible to make pkg_add
>>considerably more efficient. 
> 
> I'd much rather see the metadata moved outside the file archives, but 
> that's a separate argument and in now way detracts from your proposed 
> work.  ;^)


I've given up trying to argue for a
well-designed package file format.
tar works well enough, I suppose.
(Better than the oft-suggested
'zip' format.  Ugh.)

Tim Kientzle