On 3/28/13 9:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> On 28/03/13 17:01, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>> I was finally able to reproduce this--I hadn't tried using 10.8 before
>> now.  I had thought that people were also able to trigger this issue on
>> other OS X versions, but I might have remembered incorrectly.
>>
>> I set up a Fink tree with RootMethod: none.  If I use "sudo -s" or just
>> "su" to switch to root then tar works.  If I use "su -", then tar hangs.
>>
>> There are some significant environment differences, and perhaps one of
>> these accounts for the issue (since this is a test Fink environment the
>> Fink tree isn't being loaded automatically):
>>
>> (su -)
> []
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>> USER=root
>> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin
>
>> (su)
> []
>> SHELL=/bin/sh
>  > USER=hansen
>> PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/Users/hansen/bin
>>
>> _=/usr/bin/printenv
>
> How did you set up your Fink environment for the root user? Manually? Or
> not at all? With pathsetup.sh it won't work, because it doesn't support
> sh as shell.
>

That would be "not at all" for me.

My test case is just to run

# /tmp/sw/bin/fink rebuild base-files

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
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