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On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 01:20:15PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> This is easy to implement using a trick that I stumbled
> across a few years ago.  The idea is to just build
> a description of the final archive in a nice verbose
> text format such as:

...which is done by NetBSD for the unprivileged release building via
build.sh. Anyone interested in working on this should possibly have a
look there.

Joerg