On 01.02.2019 11:10, Warner Losh wrote: > On Thu, Jan 31, 2019, 8:22 PM Eugene Grosbein <eu...@grosbein.net > <mailto:eu...@grosbein.net> wrote: > > 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? > > > If you fix it, protocol is to submit it upstream first.
That was done 3 months ago. > It causes fewer problems in the long run. While it is tempting to just fix it > in FreeBSD and move on, > almost every time we've done that in the past someone else has had to come in > and fix the mess. > > Do you have a fix? Can you put it up for review somewhere? It is attached to mentioned PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=233006#c6 > We are no where near a release, so there is no reason to rush this in. I waited for almost 3 months already. It seems, there would be no response at all. _______________________________________________ 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"
