[Bug 498634] [NEW] Utility freebsd-mtree appears to create an invalid mtree file

[Donald Allwright]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: freebsd-buildutils

I've been trying to use freebsd-mtree to capture and restore file and directory permissions for a directory tree to be checked into a version control system. I am able to create an mtree file, but when trying to compare the directory with the contents of this file it always fails.
I set up a directory 'test' containing a subdirectory 'test1' in my home directory and ran:
freebsd-mtree -c -p test
Which gave me the output:
#	   user: testuser
#	machine: testuser-laptop
#	   tree: /home/testuser/test
#	   date: Sat Dec 19 22:51:16 2009

# .
/set type=file uid=1000 gid=1000 mode=0755 nlink=1
\056            type=dir nlink=3 size=4096 time=1261263072.449459025

# ./test1
\164\145\163\164\061 \
                type=dir nlink=2 size=4096 time=1261263013.626458064
# ./test1
..

..

I piped this to a file 'mtree' then attempted to run:
freebsd-mtree -U -f mtree -p test

which gave me the output:
. extra
 missing (directory not created: No such file or directory)
/ missing (directory not created: File exists)

I don't have ready access to a BSD system to run the original command
on, but this looks like it might be a problem with the port to Linux of
this tool.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 19 22:42:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: freebsd-buildutils 7.2-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: freebsd-buildutils
Tags:  ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

** Affects: freebsd-buildutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386 ubuntu-unr

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Utility freebsd-mtree appears to create an invalid mtree file
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