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

From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
Date: Sat 25 Aug 2007 - 00:28:52 CEST
Message-Id: <7AB3B011-924C-4850-AEBF-94F95CC7C62B@mac.com>

On Aug 24, 2007, at 4:58 PM, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 10:45:29PM +0200, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>> 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...
>
> You mean that we need one more configure test?
>

A configure test on the build system may be irrelevant on a "managed"  
install.

I'll add a %{_tar_wildcards} wrapper, it's a silly stoopid issue.

73 de Jeff
Received on Sat Aug 25 00:29:38 2007
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