Bug 786400

Summary:	Arbitrary disabled bsdtar breaks support for external tools
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Helio Chissini de Castro <helio>
Component:	libarchive	Assignee:	Tomáš Bžatek <tbzatek>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	rdieter, tbzatek, tsmetana, wojdyr
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Fixed In Version:	libarchive-3.0.3-2.fc17	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Helio Chissini de Castro 2012-02-01 11:01:56 UTC

Package build for libarchive arbitrary desable compilation of bsd utilities, nsdtar and bsdcpio with no apparent reason.

This tools are used for some auto build environments, most know example is opensuse buildserver worker, that uses bsdtar for unpack build environment remotely.

The absence of bsdtar simply renders a fedora box unusable as a node of the whole build cluster.

Comment 1 Tomáš Bžatek 2012-02-01 13:44:52 UTC

Built as libarchive-3.0.3-2.fc17

There were historical reasons, when we first introduced libarchive in Fedora, it was a toy library for gvfs and these extra utilities were considered as useless/duplicate to standard tar/cpio commands.

Comment 2 Tomáš Bžatek 2012-02-09 12:39:25 UTC

*** Bug 766131 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***