Re: Translator support for GNU tar (patch 2)

2003-06-22 Thread Marco Gerards
And here is my second attempt. I think I've fixed all minor problems everyone had with my last patch (Thanks Alfred, Marcus and Wolfgang). I would also like some comments about this patch. Please tell me what to change, add, do before sending it to the tar mailinglist. What I also like to know is

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-22 Thread Wolfgang Jaehrling
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 03:36:56PM +0200, M. Gerards wrote: > I think all my questions are answered right now, with the exception of > file_get_translator and file_set_translator. Those two functions are > undocumented and I'd like to know if I used them the right way. They are documented in fs.d

Re: Hurd package needs an update (was: Re: [Patch #1606] Overhauldebian/rules)

2003-06-22 Thread Robert Millan
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 08:28:43PM -0400, Jeff Bailey wrote: > I went about this yesterday, and discovered that tetex-bin isn't usable > in the archive. Decided that solving that was a task for Monday as I > have a guest in town. tetex-bin has been broken a pair of times for all arches (see the c

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-22 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > To add translators to a tar file you have to use the "-a" switch. It > > doesn't add symlinks, devices and fifos. I guess that is the behaviour > > we want. > > In effect, yes. I am not quite sure on tar's internal logic, but it > appeared