Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 09:58:17 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Bruce Evans <bde@optusnet.com.au> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/mdconfig mdconfig.8 Message-ID: <20070520065817.GA3770@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <464FCDB8.9050700@freebsd.org> References: <200705181357.l4IDvHIP099048@repoman.freebsd.org> <20070518204131.GA50910@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070518205340.GA36079@kobe.laptop> <20070519073416.L44599@delplex.bde.org> <20070520023345.GB2239@kobe.laptop> <464FCDB8.9050700@freebsd.org>
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On 2007-05-19 21:25, Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote: >>>>>An interesting trick is that bsdtar can read ISO files without >>>>>needing to mount them - I wonder if a cross-reference is >>>>>appropriate. >>>Even bsdtar itself doesn't document this explicitly, at least in 6.2. >>>It points to libarchive(5) for the complete list of supported formats. > > Excellent point. Perhaps we should modify the first > paragraph of bsdtar.1 to read: > > DESCRIPTION > tar creates and manipulates streaming archive files. > This implementation can extract from tar, pax, cpio, > zip, jar, ar, and ISO 9660 CD-ROM images and can create > tar, pax, cpio, ar, and shar archives. > > Maybe add an example as well: > > To examine the contents of an ISO 9660 CD-ROM image: > tar -tf image.iso > > Thoughts? Sounds great to me :)
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