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Date:      Sun, 15 May 2016 17:43:44 -0700
From:      Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Martin Matuska <mm@freebsd.org>, "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, michael butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libarchive update SVN r299529 breaks "ezjail update"
Message-ID:  <6944AE99-BB1E-4708-A7E8-6FA80EC9E26E@kientzle.com>
In-Reply-To: <1463328966.1180.148.camel@freebsd.org>
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Someone just pointed out that the change also affected cpio's -p =
pass-through mode.  That was not intentional.  I just accepted Martin's =
pull request to revert the behavior for -p mode.

Cheers,

Tim




> On May 15, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> 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.
>>=20
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> -- Ian
>=20
>>=20
>> On 15.05.2016 01:36, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
>>>> 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
>>=20
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