From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Fri Feb 1 06:20:10 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64BE914C3B37 for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 06:20:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from hz.grosbein.net (hz.grosbein.net [IPv6:2a01:4f8:d12:604::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "hz.grosbein.net", Issuer "hz.grosbein.net" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8D3726F02E for ; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 06:19:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (eg.sd.rdtc.ru [IPv6:2a03:3100:c:13:0:0:0:5]) by hz.grosbein.net (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id x116Jhr3044027 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 1 Feb 2019 07:19:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) X-Envelope-From: eugen@grosbein.net X-Envelope-To: imp@bsdimp.com Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (eugen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x116JggG015353; Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:19:42 +0700 (+07) (envelope-from eugen@grosbein.net) Subject: Re: Status of libarchive/bsdtar maintainership To: Warner Losh References: Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List From: Eugene Grosbein Message-ID: <5C53E4FE.1010501@grosbein.net> Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 13:19:42 +0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, LOCAL_FROM, SPF_PASS, T_DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Report: * -2.3 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 0 to 1% * [score: 0.0000] * 0.0 T_DATE_IN_FUTURE_96_Q Date: is 4 days to 4 months after * Received: date * -0.0 SPF_PASS SPF: sender matches SPF record * 2.6 LOCAL_FROM From my domains X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on hz.grosbein.net X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8D3726F02E X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; spf=permerror (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of eugen@grosbein.net uses mechanism not recognized by this client) smtp.mailfrom=eugen@grosbein.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.82 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MX_INVALID(0.50)[greylisted]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.27)[0.269,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[grosbein.net]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_PERMFAIL(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; IP_SCORE(-1.49)[ip: (-2.77), ipnet: 2a01:4f8::/29(-2.42), asn: 24940(-2.26), country: DE(-0.01)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:2a01:4f8::/29, country:DE]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[] X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 06:20:10 -0000 On 01.02.2019 11:10, Warner Losh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 8:22 PM Eugene Grosbein wrote: > > Hi! > > I wonder what is status of our contrib/libarchive and bsdtar/bsdcpio etc. in modern versions of FreeBSD > in a sense of serious bug fixing. Long story short: I faced a bug in the libarchive bundled with 11.2 > that makes it impossible to create reliable backups of live file system or its subtree > using cron+bsdtar utility that delegate actial work to the libarchive that just aborts > if a file disappears (is removed) in process (GNU tar continues with just warning). > > This is serious issue for me as I used 'tar' command to make backups for distinct subtrees > since FreeBSD 6.x and when my GPS+ntpd subsystem went insane and shifted system clock to 3 years > in the future, I lost data in several thousands of RRD databases and looked for backups to restore them > and found only small portion of databases in the tar instead of full backup. > > I've create the PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233006 and later attached a patch > solving the problem in same way as GNU tar deals with it. > > Martin Matuska (mm) asked me to create an issue at GitHub for libarchive. > I have no GitHub account nor I need one, and he was so kind and created it himself: > https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1082 > > Almost 3 months have passed and no response from upstream. > Should we go ahead and fix it despite of it is part of contrib? > > > If you fix it, protocol is to submit it upstream first. That was done 3 months ago. > It causes fewer problems in the long run. While it is tempting to just fix it in FreeBSD and move on, > almost every time we've done that in the past someone else has had to come in and fix the mess. > > Do you have a fix? Can you put it up for review somewhere? It is attached to mentioned PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233006#c6 > We are no where near a release, so there is no reason to rush this in. I waited for almost 3 months already. It seems, there would be no response at all.