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From: Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@FreeBSD.org>
To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
Subject: Re: bsdtar/libarchive change behaviour 9->10
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:52:33AM +0200, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com> wrote:
> > Libarchive 3.x can treat them as extended metadata.
> > As a result, bsdtar doesn't see them at all (except as
> > additional metadata which can't be restored on FreeBSD).

This sounds like a POLA breakage.  The rule is maybe different for
softwares in contrib/.

> > If you are using libarchive directly, you can ask it
> > to not interpret those files as metadata.  Bsdtar does
> > request such handling from libarchive.
> 
> Perhaps this could be exposed to the UI as a env var or a flag?

+1 for this.

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Jeremie Le Hen

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