Hi Daniel, On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since we're soon going to start distributing the database as a > standalone archive, it'll be useful if we had tools which can > import/export between the local database filesystem tree and a > database archive file. While users/apps could just use 'tar' > directly, providing these tools makes life simpler as users > don't need to remember where the correct database locations > are. > > For these tools I'm using libarchive since it is available on > all platforms (BSD, Linux, MinGW and OS-X). For the format it > is using the tar "pax" format (the latest POSIX tar format) > since it has unlimited filename/path lengths support, and the > 'xz' compression scheme since it is by far the best at compressing > these XML files. Cool stuff. Ack both patches. -- Regards, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) _______________________________________________ Libosinfo mailing list Libosinfo@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libosinfo
