> On May 14, 2016, at 16:29, Martin Matuska <m...@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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
