Importing NetBSD's mtree (and install)

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Tue Sep 18 05:30:11 UTC 2012


In message <20120917201919.GA43626 at lor.one-eyed-alien.net>, Brooks Davis writes
:

>As part of an effort to improve our ability to create full system images
>without root access I would like to import NetBSD's version of mtree.
>By doing so we would gain the -C option which produces mtree files
>compatible with libarchive and makefs (one line per file with full
>path) and the -N option which allows a stand alone set of passwd and
>group files.

Please make sure we don't loose the -f -f comparison option.

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