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From: Frederick Bruckman (fredb_at_immanent.net)
Date: Wed Oct 23 2002 - 15:08:54 CDT

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    On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Greywolf wrote:

    > Why not just have an '--allow-dot-dot' flag or something similarly
    > (in)sane added to pax? That way you have to explicitly say that
    > 'yes, I *know* there are ../ entries in here. Do It Anyway.'

    There already is one (--insecure). Note that if you add the flag to
    the package tools invocation, then you have to require current
    "pax"..., only to get the old behavior! That sucks. Which is why I
    suggested that "pkg_add" and "pkg_create" go their own way.

    Frederick