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From: David Thompson <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>, "Eric Bavier" <bavier@member.fsf.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add UnQLite.
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 07:27:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv8mhgir.fsf@fsf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fv8mhpac.fsf@gnu.org>

Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:

> Eric Bavier <bavier@member.fsf.org> skribis:
>
>> The official distribution is somewhat of a mess.  The zip archive
>> requires a patch that must be applied during a build step because our
>> patch-and-repack can't handle "tarbombs".
>
> What do you mean by “tarbombs”?

A tarball that doesn't store it's contents within a root directory, that
pollutes the directory you unpack it in.

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David Thompson
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-30 11:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-27 21:24 [PATCH 0/3] Add tocc Eric Bavier
2015-03-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/3] gnu: Add Catch Eric Bavier
2015-03-29 13:54   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-29 19:05     ` Eric Bavier
2015-03-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add UnQLite Eric Bavier
2015-03-29 13:49   ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-29 19:13     ` Eric Bavier
2015-03-30  8:18       ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-30 11:27         ` David Thompson [this message]
2015-03-30 19:26           ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-03-27 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/3] gnu: Add tocc Eric Bavier
2015-03-29 13:51   ` Ludovic Courtès

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