#529: sdist creation code currently doesn't work with Solaris's tar
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Reporter: igloo | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1
Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown
Ghcversion: | Platform:
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Changes (by duncan):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => wontfix
Comment:
Personally I have no plan to fix this. The `cabal sdist` works fine on all
platforms because it uses Haskell tar code rather than any external tar
program. The sdist command doesn't really belong in the Cabal lib anyway.
It's not something you need to be able to build a package. It's a command
line feature for developers and as such belongs in the cabal command line
prog. If we need some per-package sdist hook in the Cabal lib it should be
for preparing a source tree ready to be tarred up, it does not need to
construct the actual tarball.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/529#comment:2>
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