Subject: Re: gtar update ?
To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/17/2002 17:47:19
On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:16:55PM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> Here is a newer gtar-base:
> 
> http://www.reedmedia.net/misc/netbsd/packages/pkgsrc-archivers-gtar-base.tar.gz

Hi,
could you tell me from where you got your patch-aa ?

> 
> It uses ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.25.tar.gz
> 
> Has a couple patches from recent security advisory and from Red Hat's
> fixed version. (I need to test again...)
> 
> And I slightly updated manual page. How was it made before? texi-to-nroff
> tool?

No, it was done from the NetBSD's tar.1.
I'll use the redhat man page enventually

> 
> It installs usr/pkg/info/tar.info so it conflicts with gtar-info-1.12.
> 
> Maybe gtar-info-1.12 isn't needed?

No, we need two separate packages, because gtar is one of the first
packages to install on Solaris, and texinfo isn't available yet.
gtar-base shouldn't install the info file.

> 
> Also, it may need DESCR updated.
> 
> I made new PLIST.NetBSD, but not the other PLISTs.
> 
> It also installed libexec/grmt -- but no man page.

This also should not be installed I think.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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