Re: star and hdup

This is excellent! My only concern would be for those platforms that 
don't ship star by default (I know, they are getting fewer each day; I 
am thinking the likes of Solaris). I guess it wouldn't be that hard to 
make star a requirement for hdup.

For me, its not an issue. But for others, it might be.

Miek Gieben wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> After an email discussion with Joerg Schilling (from star fame) I
> started to look into star. Check for instance the -F options in
> there..:
> 	With four -F arguments, star ignores  all  sub trees starting
> 	from a directory that includes a file .mirror or .exclude the
> 	latter files are excluded too as well as and all object files
> 	and files called core errs a.out all  files ending with .o. 
> 
> and
> 
> pattern=pat
> 	Set matching pattern to pattern. 
> 
> which can also be reversed. All in all, I looked about 5 minutes to
> star and that lead me to the conclusion that star is going to be the
> new way to go for hdup. This will mean a code reduction of about 30%,
> which is there to program around tar errors.
> 
> As 1.6.37 is just released I will use that as a starting point for
> hdup2. I'm planning a few extra things:
> 
> o move to Glib for lowlevel C stuff 
> o open up svn for public svn access
> 
> For the rest I hope most of the stuff can be kept the same (ie. the
> config file and other stuff)
> 
> grtz,
> --Miek
> 
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