Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 09:16:05 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, sjg@juniper.net Subject: Re: Allow user install Message-ID: <20120626161605.5082A58081@chaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <C31B93F4-674C-4183-9F3F-5F7C48980204@kientzle.com> References: <20120626063017.D05DA58081@chaos.jnpr.net> <86wr2uwdgf.fsf@ds4.des.no> <C31B93F4-674C-4183-9F3F-5F7C48980204@kientzle.com>
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On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:18:05 -0700, Tim Kientzle writes: >Better idea: have the build write a textual description of the >tar entries. That description can then be fed to tar to build >the actual tarball. Yes, that's what we do - manifest files that tar and other tools use to produce the install images. >The description format that tar already supports is a variant >mtree format borrowed from NetBSD. Each line specifies >the tar entry fields (filename, owner, permissions, etc) and >the filename where the file contents are stored. Yes, we've added that support to makefs - I believe it is already in -current. There's still quite a bit to do.
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