Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 11/4/13 7:28 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:53:55 -0800, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: >>> great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my >> dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? >>> --- >>> TS >>> http://www.sout

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread Daniel Macks
On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 06:53:55 -0800, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: > > great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my > dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? > > --- > > TS > > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > > Life begins and ends with

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread TheSin
I completely agree with tar maybe I'll give it a shot today, just got to work so I'll see how busy things are. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-04, at 7:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: >>

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 11/4/13 6:29 AM, TheSin wrote: > great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my dpkg/tar maybe > someone could get the current versions? > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > On 2013-11-04, at 2:59 AM, Martin Cos

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread TheSin
great thanks for testing I'll be sure to add this patch to my dpkg/tar maybe someone could get the current versions? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-04, at 2:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 4/11/13 05:03, TheSin wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-04 Thread Martin Costabel
On 4/11/13 05:03, TheSin wrote: > Thought I'd post this here, this is the reply from the dpkg author that I > have been trying to fix the u-a tests with. I haven't had a chance to apply > and test the patch or even look at it, but I hope to do so this week. > diff --git a/dpkg-deb/main.c b/dpkg

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-03 Thread TheSin
Thought I'd post this here, this is the reply from the dpkg author that I have been trying to fix the u-a tests with. I haven't had a chance to apply and test the patch or even look at it, but I hope to do so this week. Martin and thoughts or insights on this? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.or

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-01 Thread TheSin
thanks for the really good explanation of this Martin I'm going to open a report with debian and talk to the author about this. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-11-01, at 5:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 1/11/13 02:10, The

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-11-01 Thread Martin Costabel
On 1/11/13 02:10, TheSin wrote: > shouldn't get text have a fallback or maybe we should create one, this type > of thing is going to cause issue all over, and setting it to N or not > translate isn't really a good solution. Maybe get text needs to have a > fallback added to it instead? I don't

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-31 Thread TheSin
shouldn't get text have a fallback or maybe we should create one, this type of thing is going to cause issue all over, and setting it to N or not translate isn't really a good solution. Maybe get text needs to have a fallback added to it instead? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-31 Thread Martin Costabel
On 31/10/13 20:25, TheSin wrote: > ChangeLog:dpkg-deb: Use fd_fd_copy instead of stream_fd_copy > > dpkg-deb/extract.c:if (fd_fd_copy(arfd, p1[1], memberlen, &err) < 0) > > need to check &err I think. Yes, I see now that this line has been fixed in new dpkg

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-31 Thread TheSin
ChangeLog:dpkg-deb: Use fd_fd_copy instead of stream_fd_copy dpkg-deb/extract.c:if (fd_fd_copy(arfd, p1[1], memberlen, &err) < 0) need to check &err I think. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2013-10-31, at 12:03 PM, Martin C

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-31 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/31/13 11:03 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 29/10/13 16:31, TheSin wrote: >> I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they >> aren't set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we >> fix tar instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but >>

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-31 Thread Martin Costabel
On 29/10/13 16:31, TheSin wrote: > I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they aren't > set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we fix tar > instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but if someone could > that would be super. I think

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-29 Thread TheSin
I honestly believe we need to patch tar to have a fallback when they aren't set. All this patching everywhere could easily be fixed if we fix tar instead. Sadly I'm not well enough versed in C to do so but if someone could that would be super. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins a

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-29 Thread Martin Costabel
On 28/10/13 23:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 10/28/13 2:58 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error >> >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg on 10.9

2013-10-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/28/13 2:58 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error > > tar: This does not look like a tar archive > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 > > I thought thi