Bug 786400 - Arbitrary disabled bsdtar breaks support for external tools
Summary: Arbitrary disabled bsdtar breaks support for external tools
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libarchive
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: All
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high
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Assignee: Tomáš Bžatek
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 766131 (view as bug list)
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-01 11:01 UTC by Helio Chissini de Castro
Modified: 2015-03-03 23:04 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: libarchive-3.0.3-2.fc17
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2012-02-01 13:44:52 UTC
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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. ***
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