Hi! On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 09:45:54 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > please find attached a simple patch which enables this functionality by > assigning STDIN_FILENO to the file descriptor instead of trying to open it if > the filename is equal to "-". > > The tricky part is, that the archive filename is not an argument to the > --ctrl-tarfile or --fsys-tarfile argument as it could be interpreted from the > dpkg-deb man page. Instead, the archive filename is a positional argument and > since there can be no positional argument starting with a minus character, it > must be given after a "--" like this: > > dpkg-deb --ctrl-tarfile -- - > > I added a note about this into the man page.
Thanks! I've merged it for 1.18.x, and added the same for --fsys-tarfile. I don't remember if there was any reason why I didn't implement this at the time, though. :) Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
