On 27 Feb 2007, at 03:17, Jack Howarth wrote: > Frankly it is insane that tar hasn't been epoched and regressed > back to 1.15.1. No other software distro would allow a single > critical package like this to be left broken for so long. If > we can rationalize leaving our dpkg at such an old version > certainly we can also justify leaving tar at 1.15.1. > Jack We still don't know whether it is tar which is broken (which I doubt..), or whether there is something else going on on _ a couple of, or: many ? _ machines..
I have built those pkgs as many times as anybody else, on several machines, (and am building about as much as anybody else, with "~ 600K files and directories installed"), and have never seen this problem. (Waiting desperately to see it once _ to be able to do immediately a stat on the files involved, and ps -lxaww, etc...) A problem should first be understood, and the clues to its source can only come from those who suffer from it... JF Mertens ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
