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Re: cpio



> Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> said:
> >    From: Jim Freeman <jfree@sovereign.sovereign.org>
> >    Date: Mon, 4 Sep 1995 09:10:13 -0600 (MDT)
> >    I'm a latecomer, but maintaining a package should help me learn
> >    the packaging system.  Is anything expected besides getting the
> >    current FSF source, compiling, running, and packaging it?
> ....  It looks to me like at least the following alternatives are
> available to be chosen between:
...
> 5.  Remove the mt program from the cpio package and discard it.  Rely
>     on the mt-st package for the mt program.

Gee whiz, this is starting so sound like work already!

I'll lean tentatively towards 5 until I look over the respective
packages.  Since I only have ocassional access to a tape drive, I'll
stick with just the cpio portion, and leave mt-st to its current steward.


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