Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 10 September 2009 11:12:20 Per Jessen wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
tar or cpio in the Single UNIX Specification. Both tar and cpio have been marked "LEGACY" since at least 1998.
Which hasn't stopped rpm and initramfs from using cpio :-)
While I could certainly be wrong, I believe rpm (both the application and file format) was around before cpio was marked "LEGACY".
I looked, but I couldn't find anything about when rpm came about. I also think it's pre-dates the LEGACYfication.
Not breaking things is often reason enough to continue to use "LEGACY" software.
In any case, the file formats are not marked "LEGACY" in SUS, just the "cpio" and "tar" utilities.
Ah, that's an interesting twist.
The tools that build RPMs and initRAMfs files could be updated to use pax,
What's interesting about initramfs is that the cpio format was introduced with 2.6, so quite late really. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (22.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org