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Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set



Joey Hess  <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
> This thread has concentrated on fixing packages, but I would
> appreciate a little insight into why someone might set TAPE in their
> environment by default. Surely if you set it by default, you must
> realse that you're asking any such invocation of tar to write over
> your tape? Why would anyone do that?

I suppose they might have set it for its effect on mt rather than on
tar.

-M-



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