Re: Relationship between pkgsrc/pkgtools/mtree and mtree in base

[Jonathan Perkin <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2022-03-01 at 16:20 GMT, Benny Siegert wrote:

> There was a recent pkgsrc bug report
> (https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/issues/101) about the mtree package.
> At first glance, I thought it was about the mtree utility that's part
> of NetBSD base, but it turns out that the two are separate codebases.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the relationship between the two is? Is
> pkgsrc/pkgtools/mtree a portable port?
>
> The version number (20130908) suggests that its last sync with base
> was a long time ago. Would anyone be interested in bringing a newer
> version to pkgsrc?

Back in the day mtree was a required part of the bootstrap process.  As 
that hasn't been the case for 15 years now we should just remove it from 
pkgsrc completely to avoid any confusion.

Someone may want to archive the current files onto GitHub or something 
first if there really is a desire to maintain a portable version.

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