From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 19 14:19:41 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 241CA1065672 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7E68FC27 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-current-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 29157 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2009 13:52:58 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail3.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2009 13:52:58 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313E650822; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:52:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DABC71CC53; Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:52:49 -0400 (EDT) To: Tim Kientzle References: <4A615602.4090000@freebsd.org> <20090719075459.GA31256@zibbi.meraka.csir.co.za> <4A62D689.1050906@freebsd.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:52:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A62D689.1050906@freebsd.org> (Tim Kientzle's message of "Sun\, 19 Jul 2009 01\:17\:13 -0700") Message-ID: <4463doaifi.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: John Hay , "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Joliet and release ISOs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:19:41 -0000 Tim Kientzle writes: > John Hay wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:56:34PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote: >>> Do we need Joliet extensions on the release ISOs? >>> >>> The reason I ask is a little involved: jkim@ recently >>> pointed out to me that tar in -CURRENT can no longer >>> extract symlinks from the release ISOs. >>> >>> I tracked this down to the fact that the release ISOs >>> have both Joliet and RockRidge extensions and tar now >>> supports (and actually prefers) Joliet extensions when >>> it sees them. Joliet doesn't support symlinks, so tar >>> doesn't see symlinks on disks with both kinds of extensions. >> >> What is the reason for prefering Juliet in tar? Can't we >> just swap the preference? > > Because of the way libarchive works internally coupled with > basic differences in how Joliet and RockRidge information > is stored, it turns out that libarchive has to decide > whether or not to use the Joliet information before it > can tell whether RockRidge information is available. > So preferring RockRidge is actually quite difficult. > > I would like to change this, but it's going to be > quite a while before I have enough time to work on it. Sounds like you're out of good options then. Maybe a good temporary workaround would be a switch to disable Joliet support?