From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 21 01:56:25 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id BAA16688 for current-outgoing; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 01:56:25 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA16682 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 01:56:22 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA25198; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:56:12 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA25855 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 10:56:12 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id IAA20663 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org; Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:29:38 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199507210629.IAA20663@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Hmmmm! New error encountered with cpio while building root.flp To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 08:29:37 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) In-Reply-To: <17290.806251694@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 20, 95 07:48:14 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 533 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I can easily do this, but it still concerns me that the *default* > method for cpio is now essentially broken. This will generate tech > support problems for us and should be fixed. A bug is a bug! > Thanks.. Why not change the default to the safe "newc"? cpio is supposed to read all formats automagically, and Posix does only standardize pax anyway. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)