On 28 Dec 2000, at 17:04, Mike Sensney wrote:
> It looks like they are actively looking at putting UPX in initrd,
> which would be useful for LRP. It would be a relatively small step
> to go from there to using UPX on all LRP packages. (tar.upx format
> vs. tar.gz)
This wouldn't work, actually, as far as I can tell. UPX is an
executable compressor; once it decompresses its "payload" it executes
it. If the compressed program was a *.tar file - well, you ever
executed a tar file? :-)
However, if there was a way to create a "self-extracting archive"
with tar/gzip-like capabilities.... Hmmmm....
The biggest problem I would have with that is the incompatability
with standard UNIX utilities (which tar and gzip are). I can create
*.lrp on any system with gzip and tar - and in fact, have a shell
script to do so. If one uses a special tool, then this becomes
impossible.
--
David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
HP-UX, Linux, Unixware
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