Re: uscan of the tango package, mk-origtargz

[Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl>]

On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 01:25:22PM +0000, PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel wrote:
> I tryed to reproduce the issue like this
> 
> LANG=C tar --delete $(tar tf tango-9.3.3-rc2.tar | grep "lib/java/R.*jar") < tango-9.3.3-rc2.tar > tango.tar
> tar: tango-9.3.3/lib/java/RestServer-1.14.jar: Not found in archive
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
> 
> Is it the right way to use --delete ?


Added "mk-origtargz" to the Subject

Please confirm that 
> LANG=C tar --delete $(tar tf tango-9.3.3-rc2.tar | grep "lib/java/R.*jar") < tango-9.3.3-rc2.tar > tango.tar
is inspired by `mk-origtargz`.

Karma bonus points for providing context.



Regards
Geert Stappers
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