Re: 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 ...

[Peter Jeremy]

On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 08:33:52PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>Any chance our 'install' tools can be made to copy the files w/o the
>right permissions and 'log' the right stuff to an mtree formatted
>file?  That would make building a distribution as a mere mortal
>possible...

AFAIK, this is basically what NetBSD does.  I also like the idea
of not needing root to build distributions.

-- 
Peter Jeremy
Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.

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