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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