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> 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> <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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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