On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:36:08AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > Jean-Fran?ois Mertens wrote: > [] > > (I would bet rather on the ctime than on the size _ which looks > > to me as an almost redundant test _, but evidence for that > > will disappear after your patch .. (sigh) ) > > I wonder why none of the people who are having this problem really tried > to get to the bottom of it. It wouldn't be hard to create a "debugging" > version of tar that prints out some more information when it makes dpkg > crash, like old and new ctime and old and new size. This would allow us > to see whether tar is detecting real problems or is just being hysterical.
Here's an interesting comment from upstream (as part of a thread that seems generally related): http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg00991.html dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
