Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jesse Alama wrote: >> Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> 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). >> >> How can we test that? >> >> All that I can offer is that, when building my package in maintainer >> mode, I was able to successfully build the deb. I'm not sure if >> maintainer mode uses /usr/bin/tar, though. > > Can you not patch the package so that it does not install or need files > with "special" file names?
The special file names are used in an essential way by the programs in the package. I think that, in this case, modifying the program so that the special files go by different names would require some non-trivial work on my part, work that would make me more of an upstream developer than a fink packager. JesseThe special file names are used in an essential way by the programs in the package. I think that, in this case, modifying the program so that the special files go by different names would require some non-trivial work on my part, work that would make me more of an upstream developer than a fink packager. 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
