On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 04:44:32PM +0100, Darren Salt wrote: > I demand that Bastian Blank may or may not have written... > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 09:08:12AM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > >> Many packages FTBFS (silently!) if an environment variable TAPE is set. > > The manpage of tar does not mention the special handling of a environment > > variable named TAPE. Nor does tar --help. > Nevertheless, it will write to $TAPE. (I've just checked this with 1.16.1-1.) > Perhaps dpkg-buildpackage should unset TAPE...?
No, a bug against tar. Bastian -- Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
