I recently came across some software that I wanted to package that uses file names like "\vee.". (Some of the file names are names of TeX macros, followed by a period.) Unfortunately, dpkg breaks when trying to create a deb containing files like these; the error is something like "tar: unable to stat: No such file or directory: \vee.". (I forget the exact error that tar produces, but it is very close to that.)
The problem seems to be that, when the list of files in a not-yet-created package is given to tar with the help of the -T flag, tar treats file names like "\vee." as containing an escape character. After some digging around, I found the `--no-unquote' option in the tar documentation. If this option is added to this list of arguments to tar I am able to create my package with files like "\vee." just fine. The relevant code change is in line 450 of build.c in the subdirectory dpkg-deb of version 1.10.21 of dpkg: execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", "--no-unquote", (char*)0); instead of execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion", (char*)0); What would be the consequences of adding this flag to the invocation of tar? Do we know of any packages that require that the --no-unquote flag be absent? Jesse -- Jesse Alama ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
