Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:29:49 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: peterjeremy@optushome.com.au Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org, kientzle@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, simon@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: <20071231.222949.1626288047.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20080101035524.GN72458@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20071231001554.GB987@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20071231.203352.-165197022.imp@bsdimp.com> <20080101035524.GN72458@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> writes:
: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:33:52PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: >Any chance our 'install' tools can be made to copy the files w/o the
: >right permissions and 'log' the right stuff to an mtree formatted
: >file? That would make building a distribution as a mere mortal
: >possible...
:
: AFAIK, this is basically what NetBSD does. I also like the idea
: of not needing root to build distributions.
That's where I got the idea... I was hoping that someone would pick
the code/idea up from NetBSD since needing root to install FreeBSD
binaries to build a distribution is problematic on many settings.
Warner
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