Hi, pacman uses libarchive 2.2.x which brings bsdtar which support tar cpio zip ar and others
I know in git makepkg has been modified to use bsdtar where it can be use removing dependencies to gnu tar, or unzip. as bsdtar can handle the cpio formats, I send a patch that simplify the old rpmextract using bsdtar script (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7491), nothing done at the time, so I wrote a new script called pkgextract, which can extract rpm and debian packages using bsdtar (I reuse the code from rpmextract.sh) as there was no license on rpmextract, I applied the BSD one on pkgextract, this can be change. I think it would be great to replace rpmextract by pkgextract. It also obsoletes the use of deb2targz in some PKGBUILD. here is pkgextract : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=13872 I don't know if it is the good ml for this mail, if not, sorry the noise. regards Bapt _______________________________________________ arch mailing list arch@archlinux.org http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
