Re: [fink-core] tar-1.16.1 warning under dpkg

[Daniel E. M. <dm...@ne...>]

Martin Costabel <cos...@wa...> said:
> Daniel Macks wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:50:08AM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>> Daniel Macks wrote:
>>>> The new tar-1.16.1-1 on 10.3/unstable issues a warning when used by
>>>> dpkg to build a .deb archive:
>>>>
>>>> dpkg-deb -b root-epstool-3.08-1 /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text
>>>> tar: -: file name read contains nul character
>>>> dpkg-deb: building package `epstool' in `/sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/epstool_3.08-1_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
>> 
>> Forwarded to gnu-tar mailing list:
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-tar/2006-12/msg00036.html
>
> They are right, it is sufficient to put one "--null" in front of the 
> "-T" and remove the other one. But the warning is silly anyway.

I just committed a patch for it to 10.3/unstable (last segment of
base/dpkg.patch). Could some folks verify that it's good for 10.4
also?

dan

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