Re: bug in tar 1.14-2.1

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de> writes:

> Hi Andi,
>
> On Monday, 27 Mar 2006, you wrote:
>> * Martin Zobel-Helas (zobel@ftbfs.de) [060324 16:00]:
>> > Looks like just rebuilding the security version resolves that error, for
>> > whatever reason. Julien and me just cross checked that and got the same
>> > result.
>> > 
>> > If noone minds we reupload tar with a bumped version number to s-p-u.
>> 
>> Is a binary-only upload enough? If so, why not just queue a binNMU by
>> the buildd? (And one should check all the archs BTW, and also add a test
>> suite one day :)
>
> as Julien and me found out, tar works only if either ssh is installed or
> the correct enviroment variables are set. As ssh is not installed per
> default in buildd enviroment we need to patch the rules-file to get the
> correct enviroment variables set.
>
> So, no, binNMU is not enough (only if you can persue all buildd
> maintainers to install ssh inside the changeroot per default ;) )
>
> Greetings
> Martin

Again? I wrote a bug about this years ago with a fix. I think is was
just adding --rsh=/usr/bin/rsh to the configure call.

MfG
        Goswin