An idea for a new development model

[Jeremy Huntwork]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:59:55PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> # This old version is the only one that won't clobber synlinks, e.g.:
> # someone moves /opt to /usr/opt and makes a symlink.  With newer
> # versions of tar, installing any new package will remove the /opt
> # symlink and plop down a new directory there.
> # Well, there's a lot of other bugs (the remote stuff particularly I'm
> # told is flaky) in tar-1.13, so it'll only be here now for use by the
> # Slackware package utils.  And, we'll even let people remove it and
> # the pkgutils will still try to work (but eventually they'll pay the
> # price :)

Also, FWIW, I've done testing and this bug disappears with recent tar. I
think the last one I tested was 1.16. I even spoke with Patrick
Volkerding about it and he acknowledged that the bug hasn't been present
in the latest versions. But he said he's inclined to leave the
requirement in place since it is known to work and to avoid potential
future problems of a similar nature.

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JH