>>>>> On Sun, 07 Dec 2014, Zac Medico wrote: > On 12/07/2014 07:06 PM, Christoph Junghans wrote: >> I know, I am late to the party, I just wanted to say that in >> unpacker.eclass I implemented a variant which uses neither deb2tags >> nor ar on prefix, but just bash's read and head.
The code uses "head -c" which is a GNU extension:
$ man 1p head
HEAD(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual HEAD(1P)
[...]
SYNOPSIS
head [−n number] [file...]
[...]
For example, on OpenBSD and HPUX there is no -c option, or it is used
differently. Also Busybox doesn't have it.
Are we better off by requiring GNU head instead of GNU ar?
> Very nice. We should borrow that code and use it to eliminate the
> need for deb2targz in portage.
In PMS, this would have to go into EAPI 6, I suppose?
Ulrich
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