On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 08:38 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > On 22/03/10 02:25, Tobias Powalowski wrote: > > Hi guys, > > bump to latest version > > please signoff both arches > > > > greetings > > tpowa > > We discussed moving this out of [core] as part of the base cleanup as > bsdtar already does its job. I just never got around to moving it... > So, this can just move to [extra]. > > Allan
AFAIK you need to specify a special flag for mkinitcpio (-H newc if I'm not mistaken). Does bsdtar support this also? Before moving this to extra, the mkinitcpio script should be modified to use bsdtar instead then.

