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Re: Q: Pass --wildcards to tar on build from tarball

From: Ralf S. Engelschall <rse+rpm-devel@rpm5.org>
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2007 - 22:45:29 CEST
Message-ID: <20070824204529.GB68926@engelschall.com>
On Sun, Aug 12, 2007, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

> We probably need this change, too:
> http://hg.rpm.org/rpm-4.4.x?cs=1a3109298938

We cannot generally assume that the tar(1) is GNU tar and providing the
--wildcards option, so the patch cannot be taken over as is without
breaking portability...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com
Received on Fri Aug 24 22:50:51 2007
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