Full file index

Some thoughts again about capturing a full file index from amgtar:

- I'd like to capture the output of tar -cvv in order to compare the contents
of two dumps from the index file.

- So instead of just the filenames:

/
/fstab
/crypttab
/mtab

we would have:

drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2018-04-27 16:15 ./
-rw-r--r-- root/root       539 2017-04-13 12:20 ./fstab
-rw------- root/root         0 2016-08-22 14:36 ./crypttab
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2016-08-22 14:36 ./mtab -> /proc/self/mounts

- This presents a couple challenges for amindexd to process the index file:

  * How to determine the format of the file?  A new header line?  Looking for
a leading "/"?
  * How to locate the filename in the file?  Usernames can have '.' in them so
we can't just look for that.  Look for ' ./'?  The second '/'?

- Does anything else parse the index file?

- We currently strip the leading '.' from the filenames in the index, but not
really sure this is necessary in full index - we have to do a bunch of parsing
anyway.

- This probably should be optional somehow, not quite sure what semantics to
use here.

General thoughts about this?

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