[Stable 7] CPIO breakage/

[Sean Bruno]

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 17:10 -0500, Sean Bruno wrote:
> http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?limit_changes=0&view=revision&revision=208361
> 
> I'm not sure what's up with this update, but it hosed up the default
> behavior of cpio.
> 
> It appears now that -o won't do the same things that it used to:
> 
> + cd /
> + find -x .
> + egrep -v '^\.(/snap|/usr/sup|/boot/kernel/kernel
> \.[[:alpha:]_]+\.[[:digit:]]+|/boot/kernel/kernel
> \.old|/etc/start_if.*|/etc/ssh/ssh_host_.*key|/etc/hostid|/etc/(master.passwd|passwd|spwd.db|pwd.db))'
> + '[' -n '' ']'
> + '[' 7 = 4 ']'
> + '[' -n '' -a -z '' ']'
> + '[' -n /home/backup ']'
> + echo 'dumping / ...'
> dumping / ...
> + cpio -o --quiet --format crc -O /home/backup/root.amd64.cpio
> cpio: ./dev not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: Removing leading `/' from member names
> cpio: ./proc not dumped: minor number would be truncated
> cpio: Removing leading `../' from member names
> 
> We've had to revert this change from our local tree, suggestions?
> 
> Sean


A little more background.  It looks like symlinks are getting stripped
of their '/' which sucks.  Ideas?

Sean

e.g. /home/foo/bar -> /opt/baz/blob

becomes

home/foo/bar -> opt/baz/blob   

Yuck.