[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Clean up the base group

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Fri Feb 26 07:28:46 EST 2010


Am 26.02.2010 13:23, schrieb Heiko Baums:
> cpio is probably not necessarily needed by the average user, but as far
> as I know it's needed to uncompress or read the content of the initrd
> (e.g. xzcat kernel26.img | cpio -t), which sometimes can be necessary
> for debugging purposes. So I'm not sure if cpio must be kept in the
> base group but it should stay in [core].

bsdtar can be used for that purpose.

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