Manolis Ragkousis <manolis...@gmail.com> skribis: > Ok to push this patch to wip-hurd? As this is something that doesn't > affect Linux, > there is no need to push it to core-updates.
I think the policy should be to push anything that is not Hurd-specific to core-updates (or master, whichever is appropriate.) This patch happens to fix something on GNU/Hurd, but it has no effect on GNU/Linux, so I would suggest pushing it to core-updates. WDYT? > From 6de900b0cf21af361c3b5910b339ecab8ded5e4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Manolis Ragkousis <manolis...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 16:47:26 +0300 > Subject: [PATCH 1/5] gnu: base: Fix a bug that occurs in non-Linux systems. > > * gnu/packages/base.scm (tar): Apply patch. > * gnu/packages/patches/tar-d_ino_in_dirent-fix.patch: New file. > * gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it. [...] > +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/tar-d_ino_in_dirent-fix.patch > @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ > +commit e9ddc08da0982f36581ae5a8c7763453ff41cfe8 > +Author: Sergey Poznyakoff <g...@gnu.org> > +Date: Thu Sep 25 00:22:16 2014 +0300 > + > + Bugfixes. > + > + * doc/tar.1: Fix typo in font spec. > + * src/tar.c (sort_mode_arg, sort_mode_flag): Protect "inode" > + (SAVEDIR_SORT_INODE) with D_INO_IN_DIRENT > + > +diff --git a/doc/tar.1 b/doc/tar.1 > +index 9000627..b91de63 100644 > +--- a/doc/tar.1 > ++++ b/doc/tar.1 > +@@ -879,7 +879,7 @@ Exclude files matching patterns listed in FILE. > + \fB\-\-strip\-components\fR=\fINUMBER\fR > + Strip \fINUMBER\fR leading components from file names on extraction. > + .TP > +-\fB\-\-transform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\dR, \fB\-\-xform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR > ++\fB\-\-transform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR, \fB\-\-xform\fR=\fIEXPRESSION\fR > + Use sed replace \fIEXPRESSION\fR to transform file names. > + .SS File name matching options > + These options affect both exclude and include patterns. > +diff --git a/src/tar.c b/src/tar.c > +index 225c624..f8102e0 100644 Could you just remove the doc/tar.1 part of the patch since it’s unrelated and unneeded? OK to push to core-updates with this change. Thank you! Ludo’.