Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Anyway, my conclusion from all of this is that the two-exit-code status of tar is here to stay, at least for now. And while Apple is currently using tar-1.15.x, we have no control over when they might change to tar-1.16.x. Thus, switching to /usr/bin/tar

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-05 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 05 Mar 2007, at 06:23, David R. Morrison wrote: That thread was from October 2006... sorry ! JF - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to

[Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
My interpretation of the early test results reported here is that tar is indeed detecting a change in ctime and nothing more serious. There are two possible solutions to this: patch tar, or patch dpkg. I'm going to advocate that we patch dpkg. My reasoning goes like this: the decision to

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 05 Mar 2007, at 02:30, David R. Morrison wrote: My interpretation of the early test results reported here is that tar is indeed detecting a change in ctime and nothing more serious. There are two possible solutions to this: patch tar, or patch dpkg. I'm going to advocate that we patch

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Except that in the thread mentioned by dmacks, it is mentioned that a new version of tar was due yesterday (sorry _ had no time to check, really have for personal reasons no time for at least a week except for the most urgent things),