Re: tar 1.29 breaks fink packager

I haven’t tried yet so I’m not seeing it yet.  But I did have lots of problems with gnu vs bad tar when I started updating dpkg years ago, so I know I made lots of changes to the calls.  I don’t think it’s used the same way at all anymore, it’s been a bit so I’ll have not go over the patch again but search for tar params in the patch not execlp.  In newer dpkg they have their own exec functions now.

I’ll install tar 1.28 and test it with my version to see if it happens, I’ll also check in current debian see if it’s happening there and what they are doing about it.  I’ll try and make time to check and test it out tonight.
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> On Jun 5, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Are you saying that you have already found a similar failure in dpkg when using it against the tar 1.27 or 1.28 releases? Also in http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/experimental/thesin/finkinfo/new/ I don't see any evidence of the execlp part of dpkg.patch since the changes are all based on the newer dpkg. Since this really might represent a previously unknown regression in the newer tar, we really ought to try to puzzle out a reproducer to submit back upstream (assuming that this is just an invocation of tar with options that no longer behaves as expected).
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> > On Jun 5, 2016, at 8:35 AM, Jack Howarth <[email protected]> wrote:
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> >      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);
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> > for dpkg-1.10.21/dpkg-deb/build.c.
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