Subject: Re: pkgsrc reorg
To: Todd Vierling <firstname.lastname@example.org>
From: Julian Assange <email@example.com>
Date: 10/09/2000 06:32:47
Todd Vierling <firstname.lastname@example.org> writes:
> : I'm not convinced of this latter point. zoularis fiends can install gnu
> : ar. It doesn't seem like such a price to pay for using pkgsrc.
> We can easily supply both formats by simply changing the GNUTARGET for our
> ar, but that's not the only hurdle, I've just found.
> GNU ar(1) doesn't preserve pathnames....
Ugh. We could always translate / to \ or something similar (with sed). Adding a
switch to not strip of the basename to ar also seems trivial.