Jesse Alama wrote: > 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.
Can you not patch the package so that it does not install or need files with "special" file names? Peter -- Peter O'Gorman http://pogma.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
