[BusyBox] ar patch attached
Glenn McGrath
bug1 at netconnect.com.au
Thu Aug 24 18:23:55 UTC 2000
Erik Andersen wrote:
>
> On Fri Aug 25, 2000 at 03:13:06AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > This patch makes ar.c a lot better, it simpler, 0.5 KB smaller, better
> > functionality, moved copySubFile to utilities.c so it can be used by
> > other functions.
>
> Patch seems to be missing... :-)
>
I always forget something
> > Uses getopt now, but that means all options now have to have a '-' so i
> > dont know if this was a good thing?
>
> Some thing happened when I converted tar. People will just have to deal
> with it. It isn't that hard to cope...
>
> > I should have some more patches, i managed to cut down a default
> > busyboxbuild by 4.5KB, but im not exactly sure how i did it, things got
> > a bit messy.
>
> Hmm. Sounds good.
>
Na, i think i was mistaken, i was missing a feature, damnit.
> > I was looking at doing udpkg_deb using a pipe to gunzip.c's unzip(in,
> > out) function and tar, but i couldnt get unzip working easily, i had a
> > look at it and it looks really ugly to me, bigger job than i thought.
>
> One of these days I intend to stick in some pipe suport so tar can
> support "-z"...
>
Yea, i was thinking the same thing.
> > Ill get some patches out of the way before i tackle anything big.
> >
> > I have upload rights, but i still havent worked out how to use CVS
> > properly, so see what you think of this patch and someone can commit if
> > for me if they like.
>
> Hmm. I would like to see it. Re using CVS -- I have posted some
> fairly descent directions on how to use CVS at:
> http://busybox.net/cvs_howto.html
>
> Using CVS is fairly important these days and for 99.999% of the time
> there are only 5 commands you need to know about --
> cvs checkout
> cvs update
> cvs add
> cvs commit
> cvs rm
>
> -Erik
>
Ok, ill have a go at committing it myself.
Glenn
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