Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Re: cvs snapshots?

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 16:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Just van Rossum 
wrote:

> Michael Hudson wrote:
>
>> I get a bunch of these:
>>
>> tar: Unable to create pyobjc/ProjectBuilder Extras/Project
>> Templates/Cocoa-Python Application/English.lproj/MainMenu.nib/ <Is a
>> directory>
>
> Hm, I rather get messages like
>
> pyobjc/ProjectBuilder Extras/Project Templates/Cocoa-Python
> Application/CocoaApp.pbproj/CVS/Entries
> ././@LongLink
> pyobjc/ProjectBuilder Extras/Project Templates/Cocoa-Python
> Application/CocoaApp.pbproj/TemplateInf
> ././@LongLink

I think the problem here is that gnutar and OSX-tar are not 100% 
compatible.
To make matters worse, once you use fink it will install a GNU tar in 
/sw/bin
with the name "tar", and it obscures OSX tar. The result of this is 
that you
create tarfiles that cannot be read by people who have only a basic OSX
installation. I got bitten by this a while ago.

And if you remove /sw/bin/tar (keeping /sw/bin/gnutar) the next time 
you run
fink it will happily install it again:-(
--
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