Re: Bug#910253: ITP: nmtree -- Validates modes, ownership, and contents of directory tree against specification
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 05:34, Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@debian.org> wrote:
>
> On 2018-10-03 21:03:22, John Goerzen wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
> >
> > * Package name : mtree-netbsd
> > Version : 20180822
> > Upstream Author : Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@NetBSD.org> and NetBSD contributors
> > * URL : http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/pkgtools/mtree/README.html
> > * License : BSD
> > Programming Lang: C
> > Description : Validates modes, ownership, and contents of directory tree against specification
> >
> > The mtree utility compares a file hierarchy against a specification,
> > creates a specification for a file hierarchy, or modifies a specification.
> > This specification can be controlled by the user, but typically includes
> > file/directory/symlink names, ownership information, permission bits, and
> > so forth. It may optionally also include various hashes, such as SHA-256
> > or MD5.
> > .
> > This mtree utility can understand its own files, as well as those generated
> > by the FreeBSD mtree (in Debian as fmtree in freebsd-buildutils and
> > freebsd-glue) and bsdtar/libarchive.
>
> Why do we need NetBSD's mtree when we have freebsd's already? I don't
> mind much the duplication: I'm genuinely curious. :)
>
> (I have also wondered for a long time why we don't have simply a `mtree`
> package in Debian - it's a very useful tool to have!)
I’m not aware about specifics of this exact package, but quite often
utilities in NetBSD are better maintained or have features missing
from FreeBSD’s counterparts.
--
Cheers,
Andrej
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