[OSUNIX-dev] Yet another package format - Feedback wanted

"C. Bergstr?m" wrote:

time /usr/bin/star -xp -bz <
/usr/portage/packages/app-editors/vim-7.2.021.tbz2 -no-fsync
/usr/bin/star: WARNING: skipping leading '/' on filenames.
/usr/bin/star: 416 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 4259840 bytes = 4160.00k).
0.24u 0.02s 0:00.27 96.2%

/usr/bin/star -xp -bz -time <
/usr/portage/packages/app-editors/vim-7.2.021.tbz2 -no-fsync
/usr/bin/star: WARNING: skipping leading '/' on filenames.
/usr/bin/star: 416 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 4259840 bytes = 4160.00k).
/usr/bin/star: Total time 0.256sec (16186 kBytes/sec)
Why do you have absolute path names?
J?rg.. what's the short-cut way to have star compress "." and pipe it
through xz so it's an apple vs apple comparison on the compression being
used.

Also does star have some functionality like..

xar -cf filepath --compression=xz -n package_meta.xml -s foo.xml
xar --dump-toc=foo.xml -f /usr/portage/packages/app-editors/vim-7.2.021.oxe