Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-08 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 00:20:02 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > I'm in the process of moving apt-listchanges to C, slowly, and the > attached patch would make it really easier for me to work with dpkg-deb. Just OOC, why C and not C++ being it supposedly part of the apt namespace? Ok, I've che

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-08 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 02:03:21PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 2010-07-04 at 00:20:02 +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > I'm in the process of moving apt-listchanges to C, slowly, and the > > attached patch would make it really easier for me to work with dpkg-deb. > > Just OOC, w

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 08:47:45AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi again, > > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > >>> Why not (4 + i) * sizeof(targv[0])? > > > > actually I missed that question, it's because in a previous iteration o

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi again, Pierre Habouzit wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Why not (4 + i) * sizeof(targv[0])? > > actually I missed that question, it's because in a previous iteration of > the patch Thanks for the explanation. That’s a comfort. >>> Needed for the

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-05 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 01:34:25AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > > The point is that doing chained pipes is pretty annoying from C > > > (especially if you want to use parallelism in

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Sat, Jul 03, 2010 at 06:30:58PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Hi, > > Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > The point is that doing chained pipes is pretty annoying from C > > (especially if you want to use parallelism in the process), plus it kind > > of make sense for many kind of operations where

Re: [rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > The point is that doing chained pipes is pretty annoying from C > (especially if you want to use parallelism in the process), plus it kind > of make sense for many kind of operations where you don't need > --fsys-tarfile anymore: e.g. extracting a single file can be d

[rfc] leverage -x/-X tar call to pass more tar options

2010-07-03 Thread Pierre Habouzit
I'm in the process of moving apt-listchanges to C, slowly, and the attached patch would make it really easier for me to work with dpkg-deb. The point is that doing chained pipes is pretty annoying from C (especially if you want to use parallelism in the process), plus it kind of make sense for man