Allow user install

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jun 28, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Brooks Davis wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:12:39PM -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Brooks Davis wrote:
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 09:16:05AM -0700, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:18:05 -0700, Tim Kientzle writes:
>>>>> Better idea:  have the build write a textual description of the
>>>>> tar entries.  That description can then be fed to tar to build
>>>>> the actual tarball.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, that's what we do - manifest files that tar and other tools use to
>>>> produce the install images.
>>>> 
>>>>> The description format that tar already supports is a variant
>>>>> mtree format borrowed from NetBSD.  Each line specifies
>>>>> the tar entry fields (filename, owner, permissions, etc) and
>>>>> the filename where the file contents are stored.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, we've added that support to makefs - I believe it is already in
>>>> -current.  There's still quite a bit to do.
>>> 
>>> It's there except that makefs uses the FreeBSD mtree code which doesn't
>>> support the crucial absolute path support in NetBSD's mtree.
>> 
>> If it helps:  libarchive can read NetBSD's mtree format.
> 
> I actually found this because I wanted to use libarchive's mtree output
> as input to makefs.

Can you give me the test case. I did that too and it worked for me.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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