On 07/09/2011 07:19 AM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
I don't envy your position:
Thanks for your sympathy!
If you do have to switch formats, I would suggest taking
a careful look at the "pax" extended tar format. It has it's problems,
but it is at least well-standardized and pretty widely supported
already. It's also quite extensible and has essentially no limits
on numeric range.
Ok, we will then try to get away without a modified cpio format. I
really want to avoid having the tar format implemented in the core of
RPM. As the format actually used internally is not exposed in the API we
still have a few other options - like creating the cpio or tar or any
other format on the fly in rpm2cpio (or a new rpm2tar). We'll see with
what we end up with...
Anyway, thanks for your advice!
Florian
