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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:01:31 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Ed Schouten <ed@fxq.nl>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: Removing the dependency on unzip - use bsdtar
Message-ID:  <20060123160130.GA39546@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060123140445.GW79989@hoeg.nl>
References:  <20060122231840.GU79989@hoeg.nl> <20060123002233.GA66371@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060123140445.GW79989@hoeg.nl>

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On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 03:04:45PM +0100, Ed Schouten wrote:
> * Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > I wonder whether it's really worthwhile given the effort.
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> 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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