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Date:      Fri, 29 Jun 2012 08:02:09 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <wlosh@bsdimp.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>
Subject:   Re: Allow user install
Message-ID:  <3D211D73-D9F6-4B4D-A952-ED624292D131@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <4FED63F4.7010203@freebsd.org>
References:  <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <C31B93F4-674C-4183-9F3F-5F7C48980204@kientzle.com> <20120626161605.5082A58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <20120627235945.GE243@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <52A78E4A-948B-4A79-A95D-0FC7D225BC00@kientzle.com> <4FED63F4.7010203@freebsd.org>

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On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:14 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 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.

Importing NetBSD mtree will give us that.

Warner





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