[Rpm-maint] Large file support

2013-04-19 Thread Florian Festi
Hi! Here is the first version of a patch set adding large file support to RPM. It uses a own file format that is in the spirit of cpio but only contains the file number and file size in the header - omitting all other meta data. With a bit more thought may be even these two pieces of data might be

Re: [Rpm-maint] Large file support

2013-04-19 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 04:21:35PM +0900, Florian Festi wrote: > Here is the first version of a patch set adding large file support to > RPM. It uses a own file format that is in the spirit of cpio but only > contains the file number and file size in the header - omitting all > other meta data. Wit

Re: [Rpm-maint] Large file support and rpm2archive

2013-04-29 Thread Thierry Vignaud
On 29 April 2013 09:42, Florian Festi wrote: > The payload can now be accessed via the rpmfi. Also hardlink calculation > moved to the rpmfi. > > With this in place it is very easy to write an simple rpm extractor. > With the help of libarchive I started a little tool "rpm2archive" that > right no

Re: [Rpm-maint] Large file support and rpm2archive

2013-04-29 Thread Kamil Dudka
On Monday 29 April 2013 10:43:18 Thierry Vignaud wrote: > On 29 April 2013 09:42, Florian Festi wrote: > > The payload can now be accessed via the rpmfi. Also hardlink calculation > > moved to the rpmfi. > > > > With this in place it is very easy to write an simple rpm extractor. > > With the help