Re: [PATCH] libarchive: enable non-recursive extract/list

[Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly@intel.com>]

On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 10:40 +0100, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> Required for meta-swupd performance enhancements: in meta-swupd, the
> so called "mega" image contains a rootfs with all files that can
> potentially be installed on a device. Other virtual image recipes need
> a subset of those files or directories, and a partial extraction from
> a single tar archive is faster than letting all virtual image recipes
> share access to a directory under a single pseudo instance.
> 
> It may be necessary to extract a directory with all of its attributes
> without the content of the directory, hence this patch. Upstream
> agreed to consider merging such a patch (see
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/libarchive-discuss/JO3hqSaAVfs)
> but has been slow in actually commenting on it, so for now it has
> to be carried as distro patch.

Ping?

Alexander, you touched libarchive most recently. Any thoughts on this?

I could carry the patch also in meta-swupd, if that's preferred. It just
doesn't feel very clean for such a layer to modify a core recipe like
that.

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Best Regards, Patrick Ohly

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