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Re: Install bnf-mode from the tar archive
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Noam Postavsky |
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Re: Install bnf-mode from the tar archive |
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Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:47:50 -0500 |
On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 at 12:32, Serghei <address@hidden> 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'.
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> 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