On Fri, Aug 24, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> 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.

Or even a generic %{_tar_flags} macro which can be used for passing
arbitrary flags? And perhaps the code can be adjusted to use a specific
"foo.spec" instead of "\*.spec", too? This would avoid having to
use wildcards at all...

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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