Package: less
Version: 394-4
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

Hi, GNU tar requires the option --force-local if the filename has a colon
(":") in it, to avoid it from using rsh.  Please consider the following patch.

Index: lesspipe
===================================================================
--- lesspipe    (revision 10120)
+++ lesspipe    (working copy)
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
                                else echo "rpm isn't available, no query on rpm 
package possible"; fi ;;
 
                        *.tar.gz|*.tgz|*.tar.z|*.tar.dz)
-                               tar tzvf "$1" ;;
+                               tar t --force-local -zvf "$1" ;;
 
                        # Note that this is out of alpha order so that we don't 
catch
                        # the gzipped tar files.


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