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Cc: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>,
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Subject: Re: Allow user install
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On 6/27/12 9:12 PM, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
>
>>
>> It's there except that makefs uses the FreeBSD mtree code which doesn't
>> support the crucial absolute path support in NetBSD's mtree.
> If it helps:  libarchive can read NetBSD's mtree format.

then all we want is for makefs to do the same
so we can have a single description and multiple output possibilities.
>