Re: [blfs-dev] about pax

2014-03-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > The discussion has shifted to > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/4736 > > Basically, pax is not really needed, except for passing the LSB tests. > OTOH, it is a nice utility, which can read and write both cpio and tar > formats. It lacks the xz compressed format

Re: [blfs-dev] about pax

2014-03-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
The discussion has shifted to http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/4736 Basically, pax is not really needed, except for passing the LSB tests. OTOH, it is a nice utility, which can read and write both cpio and tar formats. It lacks the xz compressed format, though. I would say that it doe

Re: [blfs-dev] about pax

2014-03-14 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 13/03/2014 19:43, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> I have found 2 sources for pax: >> - the mirbsd package, debianised by Debian (the "orig" I put in the >> ticket). It does not build as is, because the debian "rules" (a makefile >> actually) are shipped separately, and those

Re: [blfs-dev] about pax

2014-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > I have found 2 sources for pax: > - the mirbsd package, debianised by Debian (the "orig" I put in the > ticket). It does not build as is, because the debian "rules" (a makefile > actually) are shipped separately, and those rules use heavily the debian > packaging system. S

[blfs-dev] about pax

2014-03-13 Thread Pierre Labastie
Hi, I have found 2 sources for pax: - the mirbsd package, debianised by Debian (the "orig" I put in the ticket). It does not build as is, because the debian "rules" (a makefile actually) are shipped separately, and those rules use heavily the debian packaging system. So we would first have to m