From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Serghei <egrep@protonmail.ch>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
GNU Emacs Developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Install bnf-mode from the tar archive
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:47:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM-tV-_W3-BK2QOf9gq4mt5i_s7XfP91VqDhV3+zN_fvGbC=0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <633e0139-91d7-544b-fd10-64d37b4a4ec5@protonmail.ch>
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 12:32, Serghei <egrep@protonmail.ch> wrote:
> As I realized the main problem is the tar format. Using bsdtar with
> `--format=ustar' flag (which is POSIX-standard) does the trick.
> However bsdtar uses “pax interchange” format by default and this is
> not implemented properly in the `tar-mode'.
>
> On 1/19/20 3:18 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >> I have managed to fix the issue just by replacing bsdtar by GNU tar.
> > I guess that deserves a bug report (the bug is not in
> > the package manager but in tar-mode.el which seems not to support some
> > of the formats used by bsdtar).
Is the patch in Bug#19481 relevant?
https://debbugs.gnu.org/19481#19
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-20 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 15:08 Install bnf-mode from the tar archive Serghei
2020-01-18 23:47 ` Serghei
2020-01-19 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-20 17:31 ` Serghei
2020-01-20 17:47 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-01-20 17:47 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2020-01-20 17:58 ` Serghei
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