Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#4736 closed enhancement (fixed)
Add time and pax
| Reported by: | Pierre Labastie | Owned by: | Pierre Labastie |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 7.6 |
| Component: | BOOK | Version: | SVN |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
| Cc: |
Description
Those are required in LSB (5.0 beta)
Source for time (thanks Bruce):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/time/time-1.7.tar.gz
Source for pax (do not know which is better):
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/pax/pax_20120606.orig.tar.gz
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → assigned |
comment:2 by , 10 years ago
comment:3 by , 10 years ago
After discussion with the LSB folks, they don't have a proper version of pax either. It's only in the LSB because it is in POSIX. It would seem to me that POSIX needs to be updated.
In any case, I think this ticket can be closed with only the time program added to the book.
comment:4 by , 10 years ago
Well, I have played now with heirloom pax. It's not so bad. The building is low footprint (10 Mb needed for building, but only 160Kb executable + 20 Kb man page), and it can be used as a replacement for tar and cpio. Compared to tar, it lacks the xz compression/decompression. But you can take any tarball in .gz of .bz2 and have it extracted with:
pax -rf <tarball>
So it does not hurt to have it in the book. I am ready to include it, but will wait until others give advice.
comment:5 by , 10 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | assigned → closed |
pax added at r12866. Fixes the whole ticket.
time added at r12853