From: <jf...@co...> - 2007-02-27 03:52:27
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On 27 Feb 2007, at 03:17, Jack Howarth wrote: > Frankly it is insane that tar hasn't been epoched and regressed > back to 1.15.1. No other software distro would allow a single > critical package like this to be left broken for so long. If > we can rationalize leaving our dpkg at such an old version > certainly we can also justify leaving tar at 1.15.1. > Jack We still don't know whether it is tar which is broken (which I doubt..), or whether there is something else going on on _ a couple of, or: many ? _ machines.. I have built those pkgs as many times as anybody else, on several machines, (and am building about as much as anybody else, with "~ 600K files and directories installed"), and have never seen this problem. (Waiting desperately to see it once _ to be able to do immediately a stat on the files involved, and ps -lxaww, etc...) A problem should first be understood, and the clues to its source can only come from those who suffer from it... JF Mertens |