On 28/10/13 23:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 10/28/13 2:58 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> I remember a discussion 2 months ago about dpkg producing en error >> >> tar: This does not look like a tar archive >> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors >> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2 [] > There's something weird going on with dpkg/tar/gettext. > > As an interim workaround, fink's calls to dpkg are wrapped setting > environment variables LANG="C" and LC_ALL="C".
Indeed, 'env LANG=C dpkg' works correctly and does not produce the errors, same as 'env LANG=en dpkg' or even 'env LANG=zh_HK.Big5HKSCS dpkg'. I have to add that in my environment, LANG and LC_ALL are not set: costabel% locale LANG= LC_COLLATE="C" LC_CTYPE="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_ALL= The problem is in Fink's tar which does not work with compressed archives if LANG is not set. I have not yet understood where exactly hides the bug. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators. Download this white paper to learn more about secure code signing practices that can help keep Android apps secure. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=65839951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
