[arch-dev-public] [signoff] cpio-2.11-1

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sun Mar 21 23:49:23 CET 2010


On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 08:38 +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 22/03/10 02:25, Tobias Powalowski wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > bump to latest version
> > please signoff both arches
> >
> > greetings
> > tpowa
> 
> We discussed moving this out of [core] as part of the base cleanup as 
> bsdtar already does its job.  I just never got around to moving it... 
> So, this can just move to [extra].
> 
> Allan

AFAIK you need to specify a special flag for mkinitcpio (-H newc if I'm
not mistaken). Does bsdtar support this also?
Before moving this to extra, the mkinitcpio script should be modified to
use bsdtar instead then.



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