Hi! I wonder what is status of our contrib/libarchive and bsdtar/bsdcpio etc. in modern versions of FreeBSD in a sense of serious bug fixing. Long story short: I faced a bug in the libarchive bundled with 11.2 that makes it impossible to create reliable backups of live file system or its subtree using cron+bsdtar utility that delegate actial work to the libarchive that just aborts if a file disappears (is removed) in process (GNU tar continues with just warning).
This is serious issue for me as I used 'tar' command to make backups for distinct subtrees since FreeBSD 6.x and when my GPS+ntpd subsystem went insane and shifted system clock to 3 years in the future, I lost data in several thousands of RRD databases and looked for backups to restore them and found only small portion of databases in the tar instead of full backup. I've create the PR https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233006 and later attached a patch solving the problem in same way as GNU tar deals with it. Martin Matuska (mm) asked me to create an issue at GitHub for libarchive. I have no GitHub account nor I need one, and he was so kind and created it himself: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/1082 Almost 3 months have passed and no response from upstream. Should we go ahead and fix it despite of it is part of contrib? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
