submitter 492545 ! thanks Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> On Mac OS X 10.3 with tar from MacPorts installed, /usr/bin/tar is GNU > tar 1.13.25 (from 2001) while /opt/local/bin/gnutar is GNU tar 1.20. > For some reason, I learned not to trust the old version of tar. Maybe > it doesn't like the pax header that "git archive" adds. So I wished > pristine-tar would use gnutar instead of tar. > > I've attached a patch adding a variable $tarprog to specify a program to > use instead of tar. [...] FWIW I am not fond of this idea any more. I should have made a symlink ~/bin/tar -> /opt/local/bin/gnutar, though for some reason it didn’t occur to me at the time. Please feel free to close this bug or set yourself as submitter if you are still interested. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
