Re: smoking VMS (was Re: maint-5.10 status on VMS)

"Craig A. Berry" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.ports.vms,gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl5.porters
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 28, 2009, at 6:19 AM, demerphq wrote:

> 2009/7/25 demerphq <[email protected]>:
>>
>> Ill figure out a solution to preroll a zip snapshot on the perl5  
>> host.
>
> Hi, its not producing zip files, i guess i can try that next, but you
> can now get .tar.gz snapshots from the web page that DO contain a more
> or less relevent .patch file.

Excellent.  Worked find for me:

$ type .patch
blead 2009-07-28.20:22:52 9b05e874888db731870edce844ef9f3194eafed4  
GitLive-blead-1703-g9b05e87


VMS folks should note that they'll likely have better luck unpacking  
the tarball using the gnutar that comes with GNV than with the older  
vmstar utility.

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