Question about isolating and re-using code from busybox

[Emmanuel Deloget]

Hello Tim,

it seems to me that it should not be that complicated, as the tar
handling code is mostly encapsulated into a library of its own.

See https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/archival/libarchive for
futher reference.

Best regards,

-- Emmanuel Deloget


Le jeu. 3 mars 2022 à 18:59, Tim Tassonis <stuff at decentral.ch> a écrit :
>
> Hi all
>
> I've written a package manager in C for my distro where packages are
> basically gzipped cpio (newc type) archives.
>
> I'm currently using the libarchive library in the program for
> extraction, which works well, but is quite a big dependency.
>
> So, as busybox handles those archives well (I tested it), I though it
> would be nice to get rid of libarchive and use the code from busybox. As
> my package manager is GPL, too, there should also be no licensing issues.
>
> However, I have not dug too deep into the busybox code yet and just
> wanted to ask whether someone knows if this is a good idea, e.g. how
> much work it would be to isolate the needed parts for use in my code.
>
> Has anybody else here ever done a similar thing, or is there maybe even
> a document giving a rough idea about what has to be considered or how to
> go about that the easiest?
>
> Sorry if this post is considered off-topic, I just though maybe someone
> has a quick answer that will save me some work.
>
>
> Bye
> Tim
>
>
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