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From: "mark at klomp dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: debugedit@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug find-debuginfo/30097] Q: why find-debuginfo script uses cpio?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 11:04:22 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-30097-13298-h2uAyguR2i@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-30097-13298@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30097

Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org> ---
(In reply to kloczek from comment #0)
> Trying to minimize base build build env I found that only package which
> needs cpio  is find-debuginfo scipt.
> I have difficulty ith understandig why it needed to try to remove that
> dependency.
> 
> Is it reall necessary to use cpio in this case?

It is just an convenient way to package up a bunch of files.
It could be replaced with any other packaging system.
cpio is just known to always be there.

What would you suggest instead? And do you have a working patch?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-28 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-08  3:04 [Bug find-debuginfo/30097] New: " kloczko.tomasz at gmail dot com
2023-02-08  6:25 ` [Bug find-debuginfo/30097] " pmatilai at redhat dot com
2023-08-28 11:04 ` mark at klomp dot org [this message]
2023-08-28 11:13 ` kloczko.tomasz at gmail dot com
2023-08-28 11:21 ` pmatilai at redhat dot com
2023-08-28 11:28 ` mark at klomp dot org
2023-08-28 11:32 ` kloczko.tomasz at gmail dot com

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