Ken Moffat wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 01:06:49PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Paul Rogers wrote:
I tried testing that "LANG" bug by exporting "LANG=C" before rerunning
the compressed tar, but it failed the same way. Perhaps it had to be
defined when tar was made? I didn't think that's what was implied. But
if I was going to have to rebuild tar, well, I decided to blow it all
away and start over from scratch, using tar-1.28, which caused no
problems with the LFS-7.7 host build. Did that and came back to my
first script in Ch6 to make and tarball (compressed) the bare, clean
FHS. No problems! I'm blaming tar-1.29. I stopped here for the time
being, I've a doctor's appointment to go off to. I'll try the rest of
CH6 this evening--should be good for a couple hours of grinding.
If the problem is tar-1.29, why does it work perfectly for all the editors?
There is nothing special in a disk utility like this that is processor or
system dependent.
LFS-8.0 has been out for about two months. If there was a problem,
certainly we would have heard about it before now.
-- Bruce
Paul has a different use-case for tar:
He is feeding his package manager a file of what to archive (I had to
read the man page because I had never come across the option he
mentioned). If I ever tar things up, it is normally a complete
filesystem (or an rsync copy of one), so I just point tar at the root
and get everything.
For me, package management is a wholly manual process - I _hope_ to
capture everything which is installed, but from time to time with
perl modules I get the feeling I'm missing files (as in "nothing was
recorded"). I also get false positives for other files on a running
system which were updated while a package was being built and
installed. But then I rarely need to uninstall, my filesystems are
usually big enough for what I add during their life.
Package management is always a pain, what I have is adequate for me.
Paul has different needs and he seems to be exploring less-used tar
options.
If there is a problem with tar, may I suggest [email protected].
https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-tar
I read that list and they are responsive to problems.
I'll also note that 'tar czf dummy.tgz /bin' works fine for me.
-- Bruce
-- Bruce
--
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Do not top post on this list.
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
