Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 10:16:06 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org>, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: michael butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libarchive update SVN r299529 breaks "ezjail update" Message-ID: <1463328966.1180.148.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <eedbdd60-1676-10a4-b114-3e7165b7c80c@FreeBSD.org> References: <2c059cf5-2c8a-3b89-16c3-eedf02a01ec5@protected-networks.net> <20160512173440.Horde.5l1s9ijXRgAeMNgmT0MmCPa@mail.vx.sk> <20160512175418.Horde.JvYoOSRwfU_l2TIXv697u2B@mail.vx.sk> <E9B21A7F-AD3A-4182-AACC-3B92BBEF1216@kientzle.com> <13C1C575-4AEA-463F-A6BE-92843DAD7B53@kientzle.com> <7838d5e7-5d81-37f5-53dd-efdd0e855ea6@protected-networks.net> <1463256489.1180.139.camel@freebsd.org> <e09d36c9-4398-8932-09ec-57c6d4024073@FreeBSD.org> <F7F71925-D92A-469A-A26F-F0F13975297D@gmail.com> <eedbdd60-1676-10a4-b114-3e7165b7c80c@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 01:57 +0200, Martin Matuska wrote: > That switch is "--insecure" and is supported in all libarchive > versions > freebsd ever used. > Oh, well that will make handling the new version easier. It doesn't change the fact that the new libarchive stuff will break long-working existing software, but at least it'll be easy to fix. -- Ian > > On 15.05.2016 01:36, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote: > > > On May 14, 2016, at 16:29, Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > > > > Ian, we are here talking about cpio, not libarchive. The flag in > > > libarchive is not active by default. > > > > > > On 14.05.2016 22:08, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > > The real damage will happen to out-of-tree users. I think this > > > > will > > > > impact our software updater for $work for example, and it has > > > > to work > > > > with both old and new versions of libarchive, and now the new > > > > version > > > > will require a flag that the old version will reject as > > > > unknown. > > > > > > > > Ick. > > Ian’s comment was valid.. cpio doesn’t recognize the new switch on > > older versions, so something like cpio `cpio --help | grep -- > > switch && echo switch` would need to be employed everywhere for > > backwards compatibility — ew. > > Thanks, > > -Ngie > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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