Brooks Davis wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 11:44:33AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >>Brooks Davis wrote: >> >>>I think there's some argument that >>>we should move mtree and possiably newsyslog to /sbin to support the >>>population of /var. >> >>Has you considered /bin/pax? > > It seems like that would require a complete rewrite of how we handle > directory creation in the build/release process. Not necessarily. It's relatively easy to convert an mtree file to a tar file. (Just expand the mtree file into a temp dir, then tar up the result.) Then we could have both mtree and tar files in /etc/mtree. Nothing else needs to change, and that gives us something that can be used with /bin/pax on populate critical dirs on systems before /usr is mounted. Tim Kientzle P.S. Hmmm... It looks like it would be easy for libarchive to also read mtree files. Then bsdtar's built-in features for converting archive formats on-the-fly might be useful here. Hmmm....Received on Tue Jan 20 2004 - 12:29:46 UTC
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