Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set

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On 8/28/07, Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> > Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE
> > is set.
>
> The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a
> environment variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help.

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/man/tar.1.html - maybe not the same
version of tar though.

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