cvs commit: src/lib/libarchive Makefile archive.h.in archive_entry.c archive_entry.h archive_entry_link_resolver.c archive_entry_private.h archive_entry_strmode.c archive_platform.h archive_read.c archive_read_support_compression_none.c archive_read_support_format_all.c ...

Simon L. Nielsen simon at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 30 16:34:34 PST 2007


On 2007.12.30 04:58:23 +0000, Tim Kientzle wrote:

>   Log:
>   Update libarchive to 2.4.10.  This includes a number of improvements
>   that I've been working on but put off committing until after the
>   RELENG_7 branch, including:
>   
>   * New manpages: cpio.5 mtree.5

mtree(5) seems to be a general manual page, so wouldn't it make more
sense to have it in src/share/man/man5 or src/usr.sbin/mtree ?

>   * New read support: mtree format

This sounds interesting but I can't really figure out what it
does... ? :) (and I couldn't find any mention in the updated manual
pages.)

>   Many of these improvements were motivated by the upcoming bsdcpio
>   front-end.

Great!  With my secteam hat I'm certainly looking forward to having to
deal with one less dead GNU project :-).

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen


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