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Date:      Sat, 14 May 2016 16:36:18 -0700
From:      "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, 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:  <F7F71925-D92A-469A-A26F-F0F13975297D@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <e09d36c9-4398-8932-09ec-57c6d4024073@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>

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> On May 14, 2016, at 16:29, Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> Ian, we are here talking about cpio, not libarchive. The flag in
> libarchive is not active by default.
>=20
> 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.
>>=20
>> Ick.

Ian=E2=80=99s comment was valid.. cpio doesn=E2=80=99t 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 =E2=80=94 ew.
Thanks,
-Ngie=



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