[Leaf-devel] Re: [LRP-dev] upx

[David D. <ss...@ma...>]

On 28 Dec 2000, at 17:04, Mike Sensney wrote:

> It looks like they are actively looking at putting UPX in initrd,
> which would be useful for LRP. It would be a relatively small step
> to go from there to using UPX on all LRP packages. (tar.upx format
> vs. tar.gz) 

This wouldn't work, actually, as far as I can tell.  UPX is an 
executable compressor; once it decompresses its "payload" it executes 
it.  If the compressed program was a *.tar file - well, you ever 
executed a tar file? :-)

However, if there was a way to create a "self-extracting archive" 
with tar/gzip-like capabilities.... Hmmmm....

The biggest problem I would have with that is the incompatability 
with standard UNIX utilities (which tar and gzip are).  I can create 
*.lrp on any system with gzip and tar - and in fact, have a shell 
script to do so.  If one uses a special tool, then this becomes 
impossible.

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David Douthitt
UNIX Systems Administrator
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