libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both the strict POSIX tar format and many of the commonly-used GNU extensions. - George Reid greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org How-To-Repeat: n/a
At Sat, 6 Jan 2001 19:06:50 +0000 (GMT), George Reid wrote: > libtar is a C library for manipulating tar archives. It supports both Seems to me that it should go under the `archiver' category, then. -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly"
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > Seems to me that it should go under the `archiver' category, then. And not under 'devel' like zziplib? Perhaps this needs to be moved. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org
At Sat, 6 Jan 2001 22:17:37 +0000 (GMT), George Reid wrote: > On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > > > Seems to me that it should go under the `archiver' category, then. > > And not under 'devel' like zziplib? Perhaps this needs to be moved. Yes, and probably sysutils/{afio,guitar,gtar,star} too. They look more suitable in 'archiver' than in 'sysutils', judging from the meanings of their names and what they actually do. My 2 yen, -- / /__ __ Akinori.org / MUSHA.org / ) ) ) ) / FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly"
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Akinori MUSHA wrote: > Yes, and probably sysutils/{afio,guitar,gtar,star} too. They look > more suitable in 'archiver' than in 'sysutils', judging from the > meanings of their names and what they actually do. Indeed. I wasn't really sure where to put it, so I guess it is the committer's call. G "And then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel was just a freight train, comin' your way." George Reid * greid@ukug.uk.freebsd.org
"Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org>: > > > Seems to me that it should go under the `archiver' category, then. > > > > And not under 'devel' like zziplib? Perhaps this needs to be moved. > > Yes, and probably sysutils/{afio,guitar,gtar,star} too. I certainly agree that gtar and star should be in archivers. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
State Changed From-To: open->closed Committed, thanks. Next time remember to remove manpages from the packaging list. I made a files/manpages file since there were so many, and fixed the names of all your patchfiles.