Re: [Bug-tar] tar HEAD: difflink.at portability issue

2018-04-27 Thread Pavel Raiskup
On Thursday, April 26, 2018 7:01:05 PM CEST Christian Weisgerber wrote: > In the tar 1.30 release there was a problem with the difflink.at > test; this has been fixed in HEAD. However, the test still fails > on *BSD and there is an underlying portability issue. > > The preparatory part of the tes

Re: [Bug-tar] tar HEAD: difflink.at portability issue

2018-04-27 Thread Joerg Schilling
Christian Weisgerber wrote: > I suggest the following fix: > > --- /home/naddy/difflink.at Thu Apr 26 18:58:04 2018 > +++ difflink.at Thu Apr 26 18:52:59 2018 > @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ > mkdir a > genfile -f a/x > ln -s x a/y > -ln a/y a/z > +ln -P a/y a/z Do you like this to fail on many s

[Bug-tar] tar HEAD: difflink.at portability issue

2018-04-26 Thread Christian Weisgerber
In the tar 1.30 release there was a problem with the difflink.at test; this has been fixed in HEAD. However, the test still fails on *BSD and there is an underlying portability issue. The preparatory part of the test runs this: mkdir a genfile -f a/x ln -s x a/y ln a/y a/z What is the expected