[arch-projects] [mkinitcpio][PATCH 4/4] lsinitcpio: comment on why bsdtar alone isn't good enough
Dave Reisner
dreisner at archlinux.org
Sun Jul 15 10:33:52 EDT 2012
I almost deleted this, replacing it with only bsdtar. Add a comment so
I'm not tempted to do this again.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner at archlinux.org>
---
lsinitcpio | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lsinitcpio b/lsinitcpio
index 4b9f77b..980596a 100755
--- a/lsinitcpio
+++ b/lsinitcpio
@@ -141,7 +141,9 @@ if (( analyze )); then
ratio=.$(( zsize * 1000 / fullsize % 1000 ))
fi
- # decompress the image since we need to read from it multiple times
+ # decompress the image since we need to read from it multiple times. we
+ # have to pass this through decomp() since the image might be lzop which
+ # bsdtar can't read.
decomp "$image" | bsdtar -C "$workdir" -xf -
# collect stats
--
1.7.11.2
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