David Thompson <[email protected]> skribis: > Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > >> Eric Bavier <[email protected]> skribis: >> >>> The official distribution is somewhat of a mess. The zip archive >>> requires a patch that must be applied during a build step because our >>> patch-and-repack can't handle "tarbombs". >> >> What do you mean by “tarbombs”? > > A tarball that doesn't store it's contents within a root directory, that > pollutes the directory you unpack it in.
Oh OK, I didn’t know there was a name for that. :-) So indeed, ‘patch-and-repack’ doesn’t handle it, and the ‘unpack’ phase may not do what you’d expect, assuming there is something to be expected. Ludo’.
