libarchive update SVN r299529 breaks "ezjail update"

[Ian Lepore]

On Sun, 2016-05-15 at 01:57 +0200, Martin Matuska wrote:
> That switch is "--insecure" and is supported in all libarchive
> versions
> freebsd ever used.
> 

Oh, well that will make handling the new version easier.  It doesn't
change the fact that the new libarchive stuff will break long-working
existing software, but at least it'll be easy to fix.

-- Ian

> 
> On 15.05.2016 01:36, Ngie Cooper (yaneurabeya) wrote:
> > > On May 14, 2016, at 16:29, Martin Matuska <mm at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Ian, we are here talking about cpio, not libarchive. The flag in
> > > libarchive is not active by default.
> > > 
> > > On 14.05.2016 22:08, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > > > The real damage will happen to out-of-tree users.  I think this
> > > > will
> > > > impact our software updater for $work for example, and it has
> > > > to work
> > > > with both old and new versions of libarchive, and now the new
> > > > version
> > > > will require a flag that the old version will reject as
> > > > unknown.
> > > > 
> > > > Ick.
> > Ian’s comment was valid.. cpio doesn’t recognize the new switch on
> > older versions, so something like cpio `cpio --help | grep --
> > switch && echo switch` would need to be employed everywhere for
> > backwards compatibility — ew.
> > Thanks,
> > -Ngie
> 
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