On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:22:48PM -0800, Jesse Alama wrote:
[snip good rationale for...]
> 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?

Is dpkg assured of running fink's tar here? That flag is only
supported by /sw/bin/tar, not apple's /usr/bin/tar (at least not on
10.4).

dan

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