libarchive update SVN r299529 breaks "ezjail update"

[Tim Kientzle]

Someone just pointed out that the change also affected cpio's -p pass-through mode.  That was not intentional.  I just accepted Martin's pull request to revert the behavior for -p mode.

Cheers,

Tim




> On May 15, 2016, at 9:16 AM, Ian Lepore <ian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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