Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 13:58:24 -0800 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: REVIEW: cleanvar.patch Message-ID: <400DA480.2070705@acm.org> In-Reply-To: <9987.1074635471@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <9987.1074635471@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <20040120214533.GC11747@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>, Brooks Davis writes: > >>>P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for >>>libarchive to also read mtree files. Then >>>bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats >>>on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm.... >> >>This would deal with my concerns about making all the directories. This >>would yeild a reasionable, single stage method of creating source files >>for populating directories without requiring mtree. I like this idea. > > > Considering that we are talking about a checked in mtree file, it would > be a lot simpler to have a tool convert it to a shellscript and run that > from /etc/rc.* Oh, so I guess I should start working on the "shar" writing code for libarchive, too? Tim
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