Revert to the old behavior that 6f5a90 attempted to simplify and go with the original proposed solution of using "ugly" bash to detect empty directories.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <[email protected]> --- And here's such a patch... scripts/repo-add.sh.in | 9 +++++++-- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in index 17b32aa..37466ea 100644 --- a/scripts/repo-add.sh.in +++ b/scripts/repo-add.sh.in @@ -629,8 +629,13 @@ if (( success )); then filename=${REPO_DB_FILE##*/} pushd "$tmpdir" >/dev/null - # strip the './' off filenames; this also allows us to tar an empty dir - bsdtar -s %^./%% -c${TAR_OPT}f "$REPO_DB_FILE" ./ + if ( shopt -s nullglob; files=(*); (( ${#files[*]} )) ); then + bsdtar -c${TAR_OPT}f "$filename" * + else + # we have no packages remaining? zip up some emptyness + warning "$(gettext "No packages remain, creating empty database.")" + bsdtar -c${TAR_OPT}f "$filename" -T /dev/null + fi create_signature "$filename" popd >/dev/null -- 1.7.6
