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Subject: Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar
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On Friday 16 January 2004 02:17 pm, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:12:24PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> > Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> writes:
> > > How?  Easy.  Use libarchive to extract the packing
> > > list---which is always the first archive entry---
> >
> > Ass, U, Me.
>
> I believe the packing list being first in the archive is part of
> the definition of the package format, and that it was done this
> way to make it should be possible to access the way Tim describes.
>
> If my memory fails me, I suggest we make it a required invariant.

Yes, this seems to be a valid requirement and one that the existing=20
pkg_create(8) already fulfills.

=2D-=20
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