Andrew McNabb wrote: > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:28:20AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: >> Lastly, DEBs aren't built on top of CPIO, but gzipped tarballs >> instead. I personally find this superior, as CPIO is an obscure >> technology, that only RPM is using. Everyone else in the world are >> using tarballs as well. > > The cpio and tar utilities have both been around for a _very_ long time.
I never said they haven't. > Traditionally, they have both had various strengths and weaknesses, but > in the end, it doesn't really matter (some people prefer one over the > other[2, 3], but I really don't care). There are many common uses of > cpio, particularly when portability is essential. Whatever > distribution(s) you believe in, your system wouldn't boot without cpio > (initrd images are compressed cpio archives). Ah yes, forgot about that. Thanks for reminding me there. So, RPM and initrd.img. Any other common uses of cpio? > I don't use cpio all that often, but it pains me to see it maligned. :) It pains me to use cpio. To each their own. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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