[Python-Dev] Adding Optik to 2.3 standard library (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@v.loewis.de
17 Apr 2002 20🔞45 +0200

akuchlin@mems-exchange.org writes:

cpio is a program like tar, that reads tar files in addition to its own format. Unfortunately there are a bunch of different cpio formats; see the GNU manpage for cpio for a list.

The recent Posix release deprecates the cpio(1) utility, and replaces it with the pax(1) utility. By default, pax writes the ustar format, but with enhanced features taken from cpio. In addition, it fixes bugs in both formats, e.g. by introducing the notion of character sets and Unicode for file names in tar files.

As for accessing rpm: Redhat's rpm module does that, which is part of the standard RPM distribution. Of course, it is a C extension, using the RPM library.

Regards, Martin