On 12 May 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> say that if the source is well behaved (that is, it is a tar file
> >> that unpacks into *some* directory other than ., compressed or
>
> Kai> You seem to think a tar that unpacks into "." is a problem. I
> Kai> still fail to see why.
>
> Kai> Just unpack into a temporary subdirectory.
>
> I was just thinking of the problem of determining which case
> it was ...
>
> Suppose I hace A.tar.gz and B.tar.gz, and I need to apply a
> diff to them to get the debianised source. In each case, I unpack
> into ./temp.
>
> Case 1: I get ./temp/A/{1,2,3}, in the second case I get
> ./temp/{4,5}. In case 1 I should cd into ./temp/A before applying
> the diff, in the second case I have to cd into ./temp and apply the
> patch.
>
> At first glance, it may be difficult to determine whether
> currently we are facing case one or two.
>
> There may be an easy solution that is not obvious to me.
Write our own "safe" scripting language. Not difficult, and really rather
useful. So, eg:-
Unpack A.tar.gz in /A
Patch A.diff in /A
Unpack B.tar.gz in /
Patch B.diff in /
This would be very nice IMHO.
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