From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>,
Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>,
52109@debbugs.gnu.org, Foo Chuan Wei <chuanwei.foo@hotmail.com>
Subject: [bug#52109] Mention bsdcat, bsdcpio and bsdtar in description of libarchive
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:44:45 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54d6f7d65b6ece07dcd758449fd833f3290f44a4.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86k01e1u8k.fsf@gmail.com>
Am Sonntag, dem 22.01.2023 um 16:09 +0100 schrieb zimoun:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2023 at 18:59, Liliana Marie Prikler
> <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Please find attach the patch. :-) If it appears to you fine,
> > > could you merge it?
> >
> > Hmm, I fear that this line doesn't do much except helping folk to
> > grep for "bsdtar" et al. Should we perhaps explain in a sentence
> > or two what those commands do?
>
> It is not ’grep’ but “guix search” so it is only an internal SEO. ;-)
>
> From my point of view, some explanations about what these commands do
> are done by the man pages.
>
> Well, this trivial patch is just a quick workaround at 2 levels.
> One, because Guix File Search [1] is almost done but not very popular
> yet.
Fair enough.
> Two, because this libarchive should be split into 2 different
> packages or outputs: one for the library itself and another for the
> commands.
>
> 1: <https://yhetil.org/guix/87pmd1r8kt.fsf@gmail.com>
Splitting libarchive outputs is sadly a core-updates change, but we
could hide the existing one and add a user-facing one with the split if
that's what you desire. I don't think adding a package for just the
tools has merits.
> However, if a table containing what these utilities do seems
> appropriated, here the description from the Debian package
> ’libarchive-tools’:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> The bsdtar program is the default system 'tar' program used on
> FreeBSD. bsdtar uses the libarchive library as a backend which does
> all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats.
>
> The bsdcpio program is the default system 'cpio' program used on
> FreeBSD. bsdcpio uses the libarchive library as a backend which does
> all of the work for reading and writing archives in various formats
>
> The bsdcat program reads archived data from files or from its
> standard input and uses the libarchive library to decompresses it to
> its standard output. It may be used for viewing the contents of
> archives or for passing it to other tools for further processing.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I think these could be shortened as follows:
This package/the 'bin' output also provides
@itemize
@item @command{bsdtar} and @command{bsdcpio} to pack/unpack archives
like @command{tar} and @command{cpio} respectively, and
@item @command{bsdcat} to concatenate files like @command{cat} does,
while transparently unpacking archives.
@end itemize
WDYT?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-22 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-25 15:19 [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Foo Chuan Wei
2021-11-25 19:49 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 0:57 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-04 5:32 ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-04 19:41 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 20:21 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-06 17:46 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-10 16:47 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-11 22:31 ` zimoun
2023-01-12 6:22 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12 7:36 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2023-01-12 20:29 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-12 21:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 23:07 ` Leo Famulari
2023-01-13 5:19 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-13 15:20 ` [bug#52109] How to resolve? (Re: [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free.) Simon Tournier
2023-01-13 18:18 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 9:46 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-16 13:56 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-16 16:38 ` Simon Tournier
2023-01-21 16:09 ` [bug#52109] Mention bsdcat, bsdcpio and bsdtar in description of libarchive zimoun
2023-01-21 17:59 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:02 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 15:09 ` zimoun
2023-01-22 17:44 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2023-01-22 19:36 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-23 7:45 ` zimoun
2023-01-23 19:29 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-21 20:00 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-22 14:56 ` zimoun
2023-01-22 19:27 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2023-01-12 12:54 ` [bug#52109] [PATCH] gnu: Add unrar-free Leo Famulari
2023-01-12 20:49 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2023-01-04 22:32 ` kiasoc5 via Guix-patches via
2023-01-13 18:29 ` bug#52109: " Leo Famulari
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