Re: Request for Comments: libarchive, bsdtar

From: M. Warner Losh (imp_at_bsdimp.com)
Date: 01/14/04

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    Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 13:17:05 -0700 (MST)
To: rwatson@freebsd.org

    In message: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040114142135.49872F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
                Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> writes:
    : I know NetBSD has a neat tool to create file systems from userspace
    : without privilege, but my understanding is that it has to pull in a lot of
    : code from the kernel in fairly messy ways. Since tar files are a well
    : supported portable format... :-)

    The problem then reduces to needing to be able to create the tar file
    with ownership/permissions different than is in the unpriv'd build
    tree. Generation of this list, as well as getting tar/whatever to
    honor it are interesting problems.

    Warner
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