Package: cpio
Version: 2.11+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
This is an idea for a mailcap for cpio to list the archive contents.
tar and unzip have similar for tar and zip files.
The "debian/cpio.mime" file below is installed by the rules.diff below
to /usr/lib/mime/packages/cpio and the mime-support package does the
rest. With this it's then possible to "see" a cpio file,
echo /usr/share/base-files/motd | cpio -o >/tmp/foo.cpio
see /tmp/foo.cpio
=>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286 May 6 22:45
/usr/share/base-files/motd
1 block
(The filename cpio.mime is per debhelper dh_installmime, which is not
used now of course, but if it ever was then it would suit.)
--- rules.orig 2013-06-01 11:12:17.000000000 +1000
+++ rules 2013-10-24 09:27:37.000000000 +1100
@@ -104,11 +104,13 @@
# Install directories
$(INSTALL_DIR) \
debian/tmp/bin \
+ debian/tmp/usr/lib/mime/packages \
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1 \
debian/tmp/usr/share/info
# Install files
$(MAKE) -C obj install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
rm -rf debian/tmp/usr/libexec
+ install -m 644 debian/cpio.mime debian/tmp/usr/lib/mime/packages/cpio
mv debian/tmp/bin/mt debian/tmp/bin/mt-gnu
mv debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/mt.1 \
debian/tmp/usr/share/man/man1/mt-gnu.1
# priority=1 so that an interactive archive viewer or browser can have
# precedence over simple contents listing (eg. file-roller).
#
# priority=0 for the tar handlers so as to prefer a native tar program
# over the support in cpio.
#
# No '%s' so receive content on stdin which suits cpio's normal
# operation and means run-mailcap or similar can give a pipe rather
# than a temp file. --list is one-pass so the input doesn't need to
# be seekable etc.
#
application/x-cpio; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=1
application/x-bcpio; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=1
application/x-sv4cpio; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=1
application/x-tar; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=0
application/x-gtar; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=0
application/x-ustar; /bin/cpio --list --verbose; copiousoutput; priority=0
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages cpio depends on:
ii libc6 2.17-93
cpio recommends no packages.
Versions of packages cpio suggests:
ii libarchive1 2.8.4.forreal-1+squeeze2
-- no debconf information
