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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 4/4] app/test: support resources archived by tar
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 03:11:36PM +0200, Jan Viktorin wrote:
> When needing a more complex resource (a file hierarchy), packing every single
> file as a single resource would be very ineffective. For that purpose, it is
> possible to pack the files into a tar archive, extract it before test from the
> resource and finally clean up all the created files.
> 
> This patch introduces functions resource_untar and resource_rm_by_tar to
> perform those tasks. An example of using those functions is included as a test.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
We might want to make this configurable on/off at build time, since it adds a new
dependency for building dpdk - libarchive-devel.

/Bruce