[Libosinfo] [PATCH db-tools 0/2] Add tools for database import/export

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Thu Jun 23 21:01:14 UTC 2016


Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 9:20 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> Since we're soon going to start distributing the database as a
> standalone archive, it'll be useful if we had tools which can
> import/export between the local database filesystem tree and a
> database archive file. While users/apps could just use 'tar'
> directly, providing these tools makes life simpler as users
> don't need to remember where the correct database locations
> are.
>
> For these tools I'm using libarchive since it is available on
> all platforms (BSD, Linux, MinGW and OS-X). For the format it
> is using the tar "pax" format (the latest POSIX tar format)
> since it has unlimited filename/path lengths support, and the
> 'xz' compression scheme since it is by far the best at compressing
> these XML files.

Cool stuff. Ack both patches.


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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)




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