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 -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
