On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Eir Nym <eir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Since FreeBSD 5.4.0-Release libarchive(3) support to unpack zip files. > Why not to use it to unpack distributives to workdir? > > I've downloaded all distros and tried to unpack them all with tar(1) > with no problems. I use FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT r222717.
I think the reason is that at the beginning tar(1) does not work for a little fraction of distfiles, but yes, I think it's reasonable to take a step forward and add a new option to force using the info-zip implementation. Cheers, -- Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
