[Buildroot] patch: target/cpio

Goetz Bock bock at blacknet.de
Thu Nov 23 08:19:04 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 22 '06 at 22:34, Philippe Ney wrote:
> > >+config BR2_PACKAGE_CPIO
> > >+	bool "cpio"
> > >+	default n
> > >+	help
> > >+	  Archiver that handles various types of cpio and tar archives
> > >+	  (Busybox cpio doesn't support archive generation)
> > 
> > We should rather add write support to busybox's ar/cpio et al, IMO.
> > 
> 
> Yes sure. It was just more simple for me to use the cpio sources rather
> than working on Busybox ones.
> 
> As this seems to be of interests for Goetz Bock, I posted.

And I appreciated it, thanks.
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