From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Feb 1 03:20:55 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C49F14C17EA for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 03:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d12:604::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6B832893AC for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 03:20:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-To: Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (eg.sd.rdtc.ru [IPv6:2a03:3100:c:13:0:0:0:5]) by hz.grosbein.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x113KXbg042748 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 04:20:35 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net Received: from [10.58.0.4] ([10.58.0.4]) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x113KVUx012866 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:20:32 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) To: FreeBSD stable From: Eugene Grosbein Subject: Status of libarchive/bsdtar maintainership Cc: eugen@eg.sd.rdtc.ru Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 10:20:23 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,LOCAL_FROM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 2.6 LOCAL_FROM From my domains X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on hz.grosbein.net X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6B832893AC X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=permerror (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of eugen@grosbein.net uses mechanism not recognized by this client) smtp.mailfrom=eugen@grosbein.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.07 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MX_INVALID(0.50)[greylisted]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-stable@freebsd.org]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[grosbein.net]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; R_SPF_PERMFAIL(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.977,0]; IP_SCORE(-1.50)[ip: (-2.81), ipnet: 2a01:4f8::/29(-2.42), asn: 24940(-2.26), country: DE(-0.01)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 03:20:55 -0000 Hi! I wonder what is status of our contrib/libarchive and bsdtar/bsdcpio etc. in modern versions of FreeBSD in a sense of serious bug fixing. Long story short: I faced a bug in the libarchive bundled with 11.2 that makes it impossible to create reliable backups of live file system or its subtree using cron+bsdtar utility that delegate actial work to the libarchive that just aborts if a file disappears (is removed) in process (GNU tar continues with just warning). This is serious issue for me as I used 'tar' command to make backups for distinct subtrees since FreeBSD 6.x and when my GPS+ntpd subsystem went insane and shifted system clock to 3 years in the future, I lost data in several thousands of RRD databases and looked for backups to restore them and found only small portion of databases in the tar instead of full backup. I've create the PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233006 and later attached a patch solving the problem in same way as GNU tar deals with it. Martin Matuska (mm) asked me to create an issue at GitHub for libarchive. I have no GitHub account nor I need one, and he was so kind and created it himself: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1082 Almost 3 months have passed and no response from upstream. Should we go ahead and fix it despite of it is part of contrib?