On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 07:36:11PM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > Tim Kientzle: > > Hmmm.... Are you working with libarchive 2.8.4? > > Yes. That is what Debian installed when being asked for bsdtar.
... and it is the latest upstream (stable) release. > > > There have been a number of fixes in trunk specifically > > to handle symlinks and other empty data files; maybe some > > of those need to be backported. > > Argh ? All effort in vain ? > Well, Debian has xorriso-0.5.6 of May 2010. Six releases behind. > If the situation is similar with libarchive ... (cough). > (If it's true that the released versions of libarchive are no longer supported, then I've missed the announcement.) Here's a list of upstream commits that I've taken the liberty to backport and include in the debian package so far: http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/pkg-libarchive.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/patches Feel free to suggest additional suitable revisions that I should include. (I'll start with the already mentioned revision). ... ofcourse, a new 2.8(.5) release would be even better so other distributions also will get the suitable fixes. -- Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
