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patrikg:
Something says to me that when you compiling apps/programs you can provide what is being supported and you can provide many options set that when compiling.

Many times you can see how many dep and includes being used for let say how to extract tar zip files, from the result of configure.

So it maybe depends on zlib, don't know if there some lib for tar.

If not the apps/programs is freestanding, supporting all things internal.
And are maybe compiled static.

That's all for me, for now. So don't be fooled by the fact that the programs support e.g. unpacking algorithms, they may depend on other libraries that they link in when the program is run.

But now i think it's internel busybox commands that are compatible with each other. :)

CentralWare:
@Rich: LOL...  go figure. '7z with an attitude.

I just finished the updates to the Local Repo update utility (testing on 9.x due to the "unique" index that causes even wget not to be able to get a directory listing for /tcz) and thus far all looks good on that front (download any TCZ whose MD5.txt signature doesn't match the signature from the live repo) and then download the "listing" files (md5, sizelist, info.list, etc.) to ensure the local copy is "most recent."  The self-check/self-heal will be a work in progress as it needs to be entirely TCL portable (x86/x64/arm) and the walk through squashfs dependencies may be a bit of a stretch for the moment since the intended usage device on this end for the moment is an arm based NAS with an antique-ish operating system.

patrikg:
Yes 7z is the best!!! :) , and support's many formats.
I use it a lot, even with windows files, to extract files from installer files with files within.

Rich:
Hi CentralWare

--- Quote from: CentralWare on January 29, 2024, 02:54:30 AM --- ... (testing on 9.x due to the "unique" index that causes even wget not to be able to get a directory listing for /tcz) ...
--- End quote ---
There's a simple way around that:

--- Code: ---http://tinycorelinux.net/9.x/x86/tcz/info.lst
--- End code ---
That works on all of the repos. I use that anytime I want to look
at a 9.x repo with my web browser.

CentralWare:
@Rich: Yes, info.lst works as a directory listing -- I have to use md5.txt for the project, though as I need something to diff our files with the repos.
I'm guessing 9.x was an experiment on www to reduce repo downloading (as it was not repeated in 10.x) or maybe a web based file app?
I'm tempted to ask @curaga to delete those index files, but honestly...  9.x is so old it really doesn't matter on our end. (2017-ish?)
Originally I used 4.x as my intended testing ground...  I had NO idea just how many changes existed there (40% of the entire repo at least)
as we haven't done a 4.x update since ~2018 or so.  Either that, or something happened on our end where the files (file time stamps, etc.) somehow
were seen as stagnant by wget.

Nostalgic fun fact (which I now feel incredibly antiquated...)  We've been "hands dirty" with Tiny Core since somewhere shortly after 2.x was released;
I just came across a couple initrd and a kernel build from way-back (though 3.x is where we really started taking it seriously with our old PXE managed
workstations.)  September 11, 2010 ~ May ye rest in peace, my little projects... :)  (My login here = 2009...  how time flies!)

@patrikg: Yes, when I'm in Windows land 7-Zip is my go-to archive application - it just seems as though we've asked it to do something it doesn't like.
Then again, it's very possible WE are doing something with SquashFS that doesn't conform to exactly how SFS was first intended "by the book"
   -- who knows at this point.  (...though I doubt it!)

Okay my friends, it's been a pleasure chatting it up -- now it's time for me to get to work!  Take care!

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