Re: bin/54710: pkgsrc broken on -current - need bsdtar decision

[Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/54710; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Tobias Nygren <tnn%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/54710: pkgsrc broken on -current - need bsdtar decision
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 13:44:12 +0100

 On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:10:01 +0000 (UTC)
 martin%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > In -current, after the bsdtar backout, we fail in pkgsrc big time due to
 > bsdtar conditional being wrong in pkgsrc/mk/tools/tools.NetBSD.mk:
 > 
 > .if empty(MACHINE_PLATFORM:MNetBSD-[0-8].*-*)
 
 I undid this for now in pkgsrc, but ...
  
 > I would very much prefer consensus on HEAD before pulling up the very
 > controversil backout, and also want to have 9.0 and -current use the
 > same tar.
 
 ... I'd much prefer we just merge christos' rename(2) patch into our
 copy of bsdtar, pull that up and go back to using bsdtar.