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Date:      Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:30:09 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Importing NetBSD's mtree (and install)
Message-ID:  <65917.1347946209@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Sep 2012 15:19:19 EST." <20120917201919.GA43626@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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In message <20120917201919.GA43626@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Davis writes
:

>As part of an effort to improve our ability to create full system images
>without root access I would like to import NetBSD's version of mtree.
>By doing so we would gain the -C option which produces mtree files
>compatible with libarchive and makefs (one line per file with full
>path) and the -N option which allows a stand alone set of passwd and
>group files.

Please make sure we don't loose the -f -f comparison option.

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