"Dave Vasilevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> But Fink's tar is in the dependency list of dpkg, so it should be used.
>
> I think this is true only when fink calls dpkg, because fink does some
> path munging first. However I just tried this:
>
> sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::execve:entry { self->pat
> But Fink's tar is in the dependency list of dpkg, so it should be used.
I think this is true only when fink calls dpkg, because fink does some
path munging first. However I just tried this:
sudo dtrace -n 'syscall::execve:entry { self->path = copyinstr(arg0);
} syscall::execve:return / arg0 ==
Daniel Macks wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
> [snip good rationale for...]
>> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the
>> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg:
>>
>> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursi
Jesse Alama wrote:
>>> All that I can offer is that, when building my package in maintainer
>>> mode, I was able to successfully build the deb. I'm not sure if
>>> maintainer mode uses /usr/bin/tar, though.
>> Can you not patch the package so that it does not install or need files
>> with "special
Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jesse Alama wrote:
>> Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
>>> [snip good rationale for...]
The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the
subdirectory dpkg-de
Jesse Alama wrote:
> Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
>> [snip good rationale for...]
>>> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the
>>> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg:
>>>
>>> execlp(TAR,"
Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
> [snip good rationale for...]
>> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the
>> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg:
>>
>> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
[snip good rationale for...]
> The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the
> subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg:
>
> execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion",
> "--no-unquote", (ch
I recently came across some software that I wanted to package that uses
file names like "\vee.". (Some of the file names are names of TeX
macros, followed by a period.) Unfortunately, dpkg breaks when trying
to create a deb containing files like these; the error is something like
"tar: unable to
