Re: many packages FTBFS, if $TAPE is set
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 02:38:37PM -0500, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> wrote:
> On Wed August 29 2007 1:28:32 pm Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 01:20:52PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote:
> > >>> I don't think so. Hasn't tar defaulted to something approximately
> > >>> /dev/rmt0 for *YEARS*, not just on Linux but on just about every
> > >>> platform, if -f is not given?
> > >>
> > >> No.
> > >
> > > You cite nothing to back that up, and everything I can see shows that
> > > you're incorrect. Let's look around a bit:
> > >
> > > * GNU Tar from Debian 1.1, version 1.11.8-5, dated Aug 25 1996:
> >
> > You're saying that tar has defaulted to /dev/rmt0 for years, which in
> > common English indicates that it still does. What it defaulted to at some
>
> Which seems to be the case everywhere but GNU tar anyway.
>
> But no, that was not the intent. I meant exactly what I said: that tar has
> defaulted to a tape device for many years. I think that the weight of
> history is most certainly on that side.
GNU tar defaults to stdout since version 1.12, released on Apr 26, 1997.
So it's been more than 10 years that GNU tar has *not* been defaulting to a
tape device.
That said, I'm in favour of explicit output setting in debian/rules.
Mike
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