Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 16:36:18 -0700 From: "Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya)" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, michael butler <imb@protected-networks.net>, Tim Kientzle <tim@kientzle.com>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libarchive update SVN r299529 breaks "ezjail update" Message-ID: <F7F71925-D92A-469A-A26F-F0F13975297D@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e09d36c9-4398-8932-09ec-57c6d4024073@FreeBSD.org> References: <2c059cf5-2c8a-3b89-16c3-eedf02a01ec5@protected-networks.net> <20160512173440.Horde.5l1s9ijXRgAeMNgmT0MmCPa@mail.vx.sk> <20160512175418.Horde.JvYoOSRwfU_l2TIXv697u2B@mail.vx.sk> <E9B21A7F-AD3A-4182-AACC-3B92BBEF1216@kientzle.com> <13C1C575-4AEA-463F-A6BE-92843DAD7B53@kientzle.com> <7838d5e7-5d81-37f5-53dd-efdd0e855ea6@protected-networks.net> <1463256489.1180.139.camel@freebsd.org> <e09d36c9-4398-8932-09ec-57c6d4024073@FreeBSD.org>
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> On May 14, 2016, at 16:29, Martin Matuska <mm@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >=20 > Ian, we are here talking about cpio, not libarchive. The flag in > libarchive is not active by default. >=20 > On 14.05.2016 22:08, Ian Lepore wrote: >> The real damage will happen to out-of-tree users. I think this will >> impact our software updater for $work for example, and it has to work >> with both old and new versions of libarchive, and now the new version >> will require a flag that the old version will reject as unknown. >>=20 >> Ick. Ian=E2=80=99s comment was valid.. cpio doesn=E2=80=99t recognize the new = switch on older versions, so something like cpio `cpio --help | grep -- = switch && echo switch` would need to be employed everywhere for = backwards compatibility =E2=80=94 ew. Thanks, -Ngie=
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