On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 16:20:49 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2014-12-16 at 09:45:54 +0100, Johannes Schauer wrote: > > please find attached a simple patch which enables this functionality by > > assigning STDIN_FILENO to the file descriptor instead of trying to open it > > if > > the filename is equal to "-". > > > > The tricky part is, that the archive filename is not an argument to the > > --ctrl-tarfile or --fsys-tarfile argument as it could be interpreted from > > the > > dpkg-deb man page. Instead, the archive filename is a positional argument > > and > > since there can be no positional argument starting with a minus character, > > it > > must be given after a "--" like this: > > > > dpkg-deb --ctrl-tarfile -- - > > > > I added a note about this into the man page. > > Thanks! I've merged it for 1.18.x, and added the same for > --fsys-tarfile.
I meant the man page update, but the problem anyway is that there are some archive arguments that are output names. Hmmm. I guess it will need more rewording. > I don't remember if there was any reason why I didn't > implement this at the time, though. :) At least now, this will not work with --raw-extract. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
