On 3/28/13 9:27 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > 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 >
One more piece of information to work with here is that if I change my /tmp/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm such that Apple's gnutar is used instead of Fink's then unpacking works under "su -". I wouldn't recommend that folks do this as a workaround just yet, though, since we've been relying on the fact that our tar can automatically unpack tar.xz archives without fink explicitly running xz, i.e. just "tar -xf package.tar.xz". Apple's gnutar doesn't know how to do this, even for 10.8. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Own the Future-Intel® Level Up Game Demo Contest 2013 Rise to greatness in Intel's independent game demo contest. Compete for recognition, cash, and the chance to get your game on Steam. $5K grand prize plus 10 genre and skill prizes. Submit your demo by 6/6/13. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel_levelupd2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
