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Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 02:49:07 UTC
The branch stable/13 has been updated by kevans:
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=0d946859c99408ab42c9f3934ee9c9f149e3e36b
commit 0d946859c99408ab42c9f3934ee9c9f149e3e36b
Author: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2025-01-02 02:15:36 +0000
Commit: Kyle Evans <kevans@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2025-01-11 02:48:31 +0000
shar: add a deprecation notice
The shar(1) program is simple, but the fundamental idea of a sh archive
is risky at best and one that we probably shouldn't be promoting as
prominently as a program in $PATH and a manpage. Let's deprecate and
remove it, since the same functionality can easily be found in
tar(1) instead.
Reviewed by: emaste, philip
Reviewed by: allanjude, brooks, delphij, des, imp, rpokala (previous)
(cherry picked from commit f68ee0e7a1e8732f725cad4ac708ec49093782d4)
(cherry picked from commit 2832af7b4ea256b18ef4dbf2ff97a50765f0609a)
---
usr.bin/shar/shar.1 | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1 b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
index 3a49c9ee06e3..9b74745970c9 100644
--- a/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
+++ b/usr.bin/shar/shar.1
@@ -27,12 +27,29 @@
.\"
.\" @(#)shar.1 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
.\"
-.Dd January 31, 2019
+.Dd January 1, 2025
.Dt SHAR 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm shar
.Nd create a shell archive of files
+.Sh DEPRECATION NOTICE
+.Nm
+is obsolete and may not be present in
+.Fx 15
+and later.
+Because shell archives are simultaneously data and code and are typically
+interpreted by
+.Xr sh 1 ,
+they can easily be trojan-horsed and pose a significant security risk to users.
+The
+.Xr tar 1
+utility can still produce shar encodings of files if needed.
+The
+.Pa sysutils/freebsd-shar
+port has been created to maintain this version of
+.Nm
+past its deprecation in base.
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Ar