On Thursday 06 of November 2014 22:32:15 Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > > The latest stable version has been released in 2011. > > Indeed. There are plenty of changes in my local tree which I'm going to > release before the Christmas
That is perfect, thanks! > > The only possible way to keep cpio alive would be to fork it as a Red > > Hat project, as long as our package management still needs it. > > That depends pretty well on what "alive" means for you. For what it's > worth, so far our cooperation with RH maintainers was quite positive Yep, as part of RH cpio/tar maintenance team, I can confirm that! And actually I am not aware of any RH fork of GNU cpio :), not even idea. - - - As the $Subject is still the same.. I haven't done a review of this patch TBH, but the inode numbers are a real problem (I tend to say a bug) of GNU cpio. Having a possibility to deal with that (even with option) does not sound as a bad idea. If I remember correctly, scpio (or other alternative cpio implementation) also constructs inode numbers as an artificial sequence by default. Pavel
