Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2019 01:18:55 +0100 From: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Status of libarchive/bsdtar maintainership Message-ID: <1f91bbad-492b-7427-6869-62145e107c67@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfq%2B=wTEf4XBExo3OeSY4m6TKzsK2U2bwcs=3CDQ=mRr7w@mail.gmail.com> References: <c9111214-fd3f-cfd8-f7fc-2613b014122f@grosbein.net> <CANCZdfq-=X0mPv4GzNqrmEFwPRUrg=B4OrGz=1c1rhp0ejs4wQ@mail.gmail.com> <5C53E4FE.1010501@grosbein.net> <CANCZdfq%2B=wTEf4XBExo3OeSY4m6TKzsK2U2bwcs=3CDQ=mRr7w@mail.gmail.com>
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I have created a pull request for the proposed patch. It breaks bsdtar's test "test_missing_file" so I need to investigate. https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1131 On 02.02.19 00:35, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 11:19 PM Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net > <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net>> wrote: > > On 01.02.2019 11:10, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 8:22 PM Eugene Grosbein > <eugen@grosbein.net <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net> > <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net <mailto:eugen@grosbein.net>> 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. > > > I see the problem report in the github, but no pull request. Did I > miss it? > > > > 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 > > > Did you submit it as a pull request? That seems to be how this > upstream takes in code. > > > 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. > > > They didn't fix it in 3 months, sure. But it wasn't clear from the > issue that you had an actual fix (I certainly missed that the first > time through when I only looked at the github and not at our bug > database). I'd try submitting a pull request and see what happens. I'd > also send an email to mm@ telling him about the pull request and > asking when he'll have time to look into integrating it or commenting > on it. If he won't have time to get to it soon, I'd make the commit > referencing the upstream pull request so the next person who imports > things will notice if they tweak it before accepting the request. > > Warner
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