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Date:      Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:15:55 +0100
From:      "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_entry.c archive_entry.h archive_entry_link_resolver.c archive_entry_private.h archive_entry_strmode.c archive_platform.h archive_read.c archive_read_support_compression_none.c archive_read_support_format_all.c ...
Message-ID:  <20071231001554.GB987@zaphod.nitro.dk>
In-Reply-To: <200712300458.lBU4wNOH038901@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200712300458.lBU4wNOH038901@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On 2007.12.30 04:58:23 +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>   Log:
>   Update libarchive to 2.4.10.  This includes a number of improvements
>   that I've been working on but put off committing until after the
>   RELENG_7 branch, including:
>   
>   * New manpages: cpio.5 mtree.5

mtree(5) seems to be a general manual page, so wouldn't it make more
sense to have it in src/share/man/man5 or src/usr.sbin/mtree ?

>   * New read support: mtree format

This sounds interesting but I can't really figure out what it
does... ? :) (and I couldn't find any mention in the updated manual
pages.)

>   Many of these improvements were motivated by the upcoming bsdcpio
>   front-end.

Great!  With my secteam hat I'm certainly looking forward to having to
deal with one less dead GNU project :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen



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