Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote: > [snip good rationale for...] >> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the >> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: >> >> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", >> "--no-unquote", (char*)0); >> >> instead of >> >> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", >> (char*)0); >> >> What would be the consequences of adding this flag to the invocation of >> tar? Do we know of any packages that require that the --no-unquote flag >> be absent? > > Is dpkg assured of running fink's tar here? That flag is only > supported by /sw/bin/tar, not apple's /usr/bin/tar (at least not on > 10.4).
How can we test that? All that I can offer is that, when building my package in maintainer mode, I was able to successfully build the deb. I'm not sure if maintainer mode uses /usr/bin/tar, though. Jesse -- Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
