Re: tar 1.29 breaks fink packager

On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 10:47 AM, TheSin <[email protected]> wrote:

> our version of dpkg is FAR too old to report upstream, not to mention I’m
> sure it is fixed upstream by now.  Check the patch in my PR see if it’s
> still needed.  I haven’t had a chance but i’m gonna try it.  I’m pretty
> sure I have a test case already in dpkg 1.15.x for gnu vs bad tar at the
> very least.
> ---
>

This appears to be a new regression introduced in the 1.29 release of tar.
A quick and dirty test of a fink build against a symlinked /sw/bin/tar
pointing at the MacPorts /opt/local/bin/gnutar 1.28 package doesn't produce
the root level DEBIAN directory. So we definitely should try to create a
test case for reporting back upstream.
            Jack


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> > On Jun 5, 2016, at 8:35 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> >      The new tar 1.29 release (which is available on fink tracker at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4664/) passes its test
> suite cleanly on x86_64-apple-darwin15 but causes fink to exhibit broken
> behavior when installed. The problem is that, when a package is built under
> the new tar 1.29 release, the creation of the build-lock misplaces the
> DEBIAN control directory at the root level. This creates debs that
> incorrectly have the DEBIAN control directory placed at root as well and
> thus all conflict with each other.
> >      We should try to puzzle out if the tar hacks used in dpkg.patch
> really valid and, if so, try to create a stand-alone test case to report
> back upstream to the bug-tar mailing list (as this glitch isn't being
> captured by their current test suite).
> >           Jack
> > ps The main changes I see here are...
> >
> > -    execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "-T", "-", "--null", "--no-recursion",
> (char*)0);
> > +    execlp(TAR,"tar","-cf", "-", "--null", "-T", "-", "--no-recursion",
> (char*)0);
> >
> >
> > for dpkg-1.10.21/dpkg-deb/build.c.
> >
> >
> >
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