Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-24 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >> sorry for not responding earlier. What would be the best way to perform >> the suggested full-archive test? > > * Clone pristine-tar git repo. > * git checkout origin/testsuite > * Use the testexternal target in the Makefile, which expects you to >

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-23 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >> sorry for not responding earlier. What would be the best way to perform >> the suggested full-archive test? > > * Clone pristine-tar git repo. > * git checkout origin/testsuite > * Use the testexternal target in the Makefile, which expects you to >

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-23 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >> sorry for not responding earlier. What would be the best way to perform >> the suggested full-archive test? > > * Clone pristine-tar git repo. > * git checkout origin/testsuite > * Use the testexternal target in the Makefile, which expects you to >

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-23 Thread Joey Hess
Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: > sorry for not responding earlier. What would be the best way to perform > the suggested full-archive test? * Clone pristine-tar git repo. * git checkout origin/testsuite * Use the testexternal target in the Makefile, which expects you to provide it with `tars` file li

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-23 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: >> Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: Also, the tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would certianly fail then. >>> Could you please provide mor

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-23 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >>> Also, the >>> tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that >>> pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would >>> certianly fail then. >> Could you please provide more detail on this. This is somethin

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-16 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: >>> Also, the >>> tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that >>> pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would >>> certianly fail then. >> Could you please provide more detail on this. This is somethin

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-11 Thread Joey Hess
Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: > > Also, the > > tar-generated manifest sometimes contains filenames encoded in ways that > > pristine-tar does not understand, but tar does, and your patch would > > certianly fail then. > > Could you please provide more detail on this. This is something I'd like > to a

Bug#545457: Revised patch

2009-09-09 Thread Muharem Hrnjadovic
Joey Hess wrote: > Muharem Hrnjadovic wrote: > > pristine-tar's "gendelta" command does not check whether all paths in > > the manifest are also present in the local/unpacked source tree. > Nor should it; pristine-tar gendelta can be run from anywhere; it has > no knowledge about the source tree t