> It was actually right there on the xargs man page... ;-) Ok, so it's > settled -- I'll change your patch to do that instead of the > -exec option.
Just curious - is there a reason to prefer xargs vs. -exec? I know that xargs can be used to avoid shell command line length limits, but are there other advantages? > Only changes that are generic enough or are harmless (i.e., > won't break other builds) should go into the common script. I'm not > convinced that this particular change (i.e., adding -f to gzip) is > generally harmless... If you still want to do this for your package, > though, please feel free. Understood. I'll go back and take a closer look at what's going on, just to be sure I understand what's happening. BTW - once I understood how the gbs is intended to work, it was really helpful. I'm planning on using it for a couple of other packages as well. Thanks for making my life a whole lot easier :-) -Samrobb
