David Douthitt wrote:
> I seem to be somewhat alone in that I *LIKE* the *.lrp packaging;
Personally I like the simpicity.
> there is only one change I would make: rename the files from *.lrp to
> *.tgz. This adds the ability to know what the file format is, and
> allows Windows hosts to decipher the file automatically.
That's a good point. I quite often open on windows machines using
winzip, and having to rename the file to package.tgz is a bit inconvenient.
>
> However, there is support for unpacking RPM and DEB files within
> busybox; I haven't played with them yet, but perhaps a new
> distribution might find a need for them.
I have been playing around with that a little, and the Busybox dpkg-deb
extracts .deb packages nicely, but it seems that the rpmunpack applet
needs cpio. I don't know if it's possible to emulate cpio using busybox?
I have also been playing with bzip2 this week and when I add bzip2 and
libbz2 to my root.lrp, and the compress the package with bzip instead of
gzip the result is actually smaller than the original, enven with the
added binaries. So _if_ someone would add support for bzip2 compressed
initrd archives to the kernel patch it might be a good idea to use bzip2
for compressing lrp packages..
Ewald Wasscher
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