On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 09:14:00AM -0400, Sébastien Leblanc wrote:
> On 29 April 2015 at 08:43, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org> wrote:
> > 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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