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 14:24:14 -0700 (MST)
To: kientzle@acm.org

    In message: <4005A9A9.6090503@acm.org>
                Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> writes:
    : M. Warner Losh wrote:
    : > 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.
    :
    : Not all that interesting, really. ;-)

    A small matter of coding then to cause the meta data to be stored
    during the install and then written to the archive format.

    Warner
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