Please review the proposed patch

2022-08-25 Thread Lukas Javorsky
Hello, Could you please review the proposed patch [1] that has been reported 2 years ago? This patch fixes the failing issue of tar reported in our Bugzilla tracker system [2]. [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/bug-tar@gnu.org/msg05904.html [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1886540

Tar uses the deprecated 'gethostbyname' func

2022-12-13 Thread Lukas Javorsky
Hi, I've been working on maintaining tar in all of our operating systems lately and one of our automated tests noticed that the tar is still using the old 'gethostbyname' function. It's common for applications that use this function to switch to 'getaddrinfo'. Are you already working on such a t

exclude17.at and exclude18.at tests are missing in the tar-1.35 tarball

2023-07-18 Thread Lukas Javorsky
Tests `exclude17.at` and `exclude18.at` are missing in the tar-1.35 tarball [1] which causes the check phase to fail as it tries to execute missing tests. Easy fix: Include them in the tarball [1] https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.35.tar.gz -- S pozdravom/ Best regards Lukáš Javorský Software

Re: exclude17.at and exclude18.at tests are missing in the tar-1.35 tarball

2023-07-20 Thread Lukas Javorsky
o you think that there is any issue with that approach? On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 6:39 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2023-07-18 07:03, Lukas Javorsky wrote: > > Tests `exclude17.at` and `exclude18.at` are missing in the tar-1.35 > tarball > > [1] which causes the check phase to fa

Re: exclude17.at and exclude18.at tests are missing in the tar-1.35 tarball

2023-07-24 Thread Lukas Javorsky
Yes, that's exactly what I've done, thanks, Paul. On Fri, Jul 21, 2023 at 9:43 PM Paul Eggert wrote: > On 2023-07-21 01:54, Pavel Raiskup wrote: > > I think the problems happen because we do do `autoreconf -v` for the > > GNU tar package in Fedora (we have several patches applied on top of the >