On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > tar -zxf control.tar.gz control ./control
>
> You can also use
>
> tar -zxf control.tar.gz *control
>
> which does not produce an error, and extracts either one. This is the fix I
> supplied for lintian when the tar upstream changed the way pathname whacking
> happens in tar... which our tools depended on. Given that we know what's in
> a control.tar.gz, the wildcard is not problematic.
<slaps palm to forehead and mutters "I should have guessed">
Yep, in this special case that is equivalent. Thanks! I'm very happy to
get rid of two error messages per package ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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