Re: [Patch] tar exec: use --no-recursion before -T option
On Qui, 2015-08-20 at 15:16 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 01:29:03 +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > I promised report this little issue upstream [1] :
>
> Thanks for taking the time to report this upstream!
>
> > Some backported a fix for gnu tar (bug #1230762 [2] ) to fix amanda
> > backup software, this however caused problems with dpkg in Fedora. The
> > problem is that 'dpkg-build' calls 'tar' with --no-recursion speficied
> > "after" -T option, in this case --no-recursion has no effect on members
> > specified before.
>
> Right, this was reported to me some time ago by Richard Purdie,
> and got already fixed in 1.18.2, for both the dpkg-deb issue and
> a potential similar issue I noticed in the perl modules:
>
> <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=fcfe4f3aa2f3cb7f8179d4f2fe6dd65e75f7bbdf>
> <http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/commit/?id=02e2060504f1c8dbbe5dec8211beaf945350c789>
>
> My plan was to keep it in 1.18.x for a bit, to get it tested, and then
> backport it to the 1.16.x and 1.17.x branches.
Thanks, I guess I won't need backports , when I have time I will update
dpkg to 1.18.2 (current debian-testing package ) to fedora devel. This
is current map of dpkg in Fedora [1], I follow [2].
How is update dpkg 1.17 to 1.18 ? is easy ? any bigger issue that you
can remember ?
[1] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/dpkg
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/dpkg
Thanks,
--
Sérgio M. B.
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