Re: [arch-general] Tool to create mtree

29 Apr 2015


      On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:14:00AM -0400, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
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On 29 April 2015 at 08:43, Magnus Therning  wrote:
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When looking at the internals of an Arch package I learned about the
mtree format.  However, I didn't find any tool to create an mtree file
myself.
It seems like the line that produces the .MTREE file is simply using
`bsdtar`:
From
https://projects.archlinux.org/pacman.git/tree/scripts/makepkg.sh.in#n1940:
msg2 "$(gettext "Generating .MTREE file...")"
    LANG=C bsdtar -czf .MTREE --format=mtree \
--options='!all,use-set,type,uid,gid,mode,time,size,md5,sha256,link' \
        "${comp_files[@]}" *
    comp_files+=(".MTREE")
Ah, yes, look at that :)  Thanks!

/M

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