Guillem Jover writes ("Re: on the use of chmod/chown in maintainer scripts"):
> On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 22:47:22 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I can't see an equivalent in GNU tar. But BSD tar is available
> > in Debian.
>
> This would imply BSD tar needs to be promoted to the Essential set
> alongside GNU tar, at which point I might as well just use an
> internal tar implementation.
??? Are we talking about unpack ? Because dpkg's unpack code already
has an internal tar implementation. This is necessary to get all the
file write / rename / conffile / etc. functionality to work properly.
Ian.
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