Importing NetBSD's mtree (and install)

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Fri Sep 21 21:14:54 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 05:30:09AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

I've been testing a port of -f -f and was surprised to discover that the
differences in the time= field aren't reported even though they are
checked.  Did you mean to do that?

-- Brooks
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