On 8/28/07, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > > Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE > > is set. > > The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a > environment variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help.
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/man/tar.1.html - maybe not the same version of tar though. -- Andrew Donnellan <>< ajdlinuxATgmailDOTcom (primary) ajdlinuxATexemailDOTcomDOTau (secure) http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.wordpress.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0x5D4C0C58 http://linux.org.au http://debian.org Spammers only === [EMAIL PROTECTED] === -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]