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tar: Move to the utilities package
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Authored by ivy on Oct 13 2025, 9:48 AM.
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rGecaa234c6865: tar: Move to the utilities package
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rGc0f17d637a4a: tar: Move to the utilities package
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tar(1) is not a core runtime utility; in particular, nothing in
/etc/rc.d/* requires it. Move it to utilities, which is also
where cpio(1) lives.

This removes the dependency from runtime to libarchive.

MFC after: 3 days

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ivy created this revision.Oct 13 2025, 9:48 AM
Herald added a subscriber: imp. · View Herald TranscriptOct 13 2025, 9:48 AM
ivy requested review of this revision.Oct 13 2025, 9:48 AM
Harbormaster completed remote builds in B67740: Diff 164074.Oct 13 2025, 9:48 AM
emaste accepted this revision as: emaste.Oct 15 2025, 6:51 PM
emaste added subscribers: manu, emaste.

@manu moved tar to runtime in a7b5a3d48640f3f5898b05328d71c2949b6b7098 in 2019 with the message

pkgbase: Put a lot of binaries and lib in FreeBSD-runtime

All of them are needed to be able to boot to single user and be able
to repair a existing FreeBSD installation so put them directly into
FreeBSD-runtime.

but a lot has changed since then. I'd be surprised if there's a sensible recovery workflow that works with tar in runtime and not in utilities.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 15 2025, 6:51 PM
manu accepted this revision.Oct 16 2025, 5:54 AM

I don't remember why I put it in -runtime back then

Closed by commit rGc0f17d637a4a: tar: Move to the utilities package (authored by ivy). · Explain WhyOct 17 2025, 10:43 AM
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ivy added a commit: rGc0f17d637a4a: tar: Move to the utilities package.
cperciva added a commit: rGc6a19aed6916: tar: Move to the utilities package.Oct 23 2025, 12:38 AM
cperciva added a commit: rGecaa234c6865: tar: Move to the utilities package.Oct 23 2025, 4:26 AM

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