From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Files from gnulib
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:00:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8362tdzl7m.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D3E0A8E.1030400@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:26:06 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, bug-gnulib@gnu.org,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 01/23/11 20:01, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > The program used to unpack the .tar.gz archives automatically renames
> > ant .FOO files to _FOO while unpacking, so that's not a problem.
>
> OK, so it sounds like there's already part of a solution here,
> in that files are automatically renamed to avoid the MS-DOS
> restrictions.
>
> How about if we expand on that solution, as follows:
>
> * Just before creating a tarball for MS-DOS, apply
> the following substitutions to the contents of all
> files that go into the tarball:
There are no special tarballs for MSDOS. People use the tarball from
the GNU FTP site. So this solution will not work.
> * The conflicting names in m4/* don't matter, for the same
> reason that conflicts in admin/* and tests/* don't matter:
> these files are not used in an MS-DOS build.
The files in m4/ still matter because you need to unpack the tarball,
and the utility that does that won't silently overwrite files due to
file-name clashes.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-25 4:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-23 12:15 Files from gnulib Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-23 19:29 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-23 22:16 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-24 3:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24 23:26 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 4:00 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-01-25 8:48 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 11:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 11:32 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 18:07 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 21:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26 1:05 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 6:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:19 ` Proposed gnulib renames [was: Files from gnulib] Eric Blake
2011-01-26 15:58 ` Proposed gnulib renames Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 17:33 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-26 18:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 19:01 ` Eric Blake
2011-01-26 19:01 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-26 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 7:37 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 9:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 9:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 9:59 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-28 1:57 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 10:14 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-27 10:23 ` Bruno Haible
2011-01-28 0:32 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 16:11 ` Files from gnulib Stefan Monnier
2011-01-26 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 0:32 ` Jason Rumney
2011-01-26 3:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 21:24 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-25 22:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 0:54 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-26 4:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:13 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:23 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 13:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-01-26 13:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:50 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 12:27 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-01-26 13:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 8:32 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-27 11:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-28 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-01-28 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-31 9:29 ` Compartmentalizing the 8.3 problem into the msdos directory Paul Eggert
2011-02-05 10:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 11:20 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-05 11:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 23:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 0:55 ` Glenn Morris
2011-02-06 13:37 ` Miles Bader
2011-02-06 4:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 7:30 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-24 7:57 ` Files from gnulib Glenn Morris
2011-01-24 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-24 4:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-25 8:20 RE : " Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-25 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 14:51 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-25 15:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 16:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:31 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 20:00 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-01-25 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2011-01-25 20:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 19:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-25 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-25 22:37 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 11:02 ` Jim Meyering
2011-01-26 11:52 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 11:58 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 12:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 13:33 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:26 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 15:57 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-26 14:35 ` Andy Moreton
2011-01-26 15:31 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2011-01-26 18:28 ` Miles Bader
2011-01-26 18:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-01-27 10:54 ` Simon Josefsson
2011-01-28 2:27 ` Paul Eggert
2012-08-23 11:36 ` Bastien ROUCARIES
2012-08-23 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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