find_list_entry.c and "FNM_LEADING_DIR"?

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 16:28:41 -0400 (EDT)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at mindspring.com> wrote:

> not surprisingly, when i go to untar the package tarball onto the
> destination system, i want to exclude the "meta" directory.  i think
> that behaviour is useful enough that it should be supported by any
> reasonable implementation of "tar" that claims to have an "--exclude"
> option.
> 
> thoughts?

busybox dpkg-deb (and dpkg) does a similar thing, you could look at
them for example and make your own unpackingtool as an applet, as there
is lots of common code the applet would have very small overheads.

Take a look at dpkg-deb.


Glenn