Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:44:32PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote:
> I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written...
> > 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.
> Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.)
> Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...?
No, a bug against tar.
Bastian
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