Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 09:13:18 -0400 From: Randall Hopper <aa8vb@nc.rr.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/26926: (NEW PORT) osg - Open Scene Graph Message-ID: <20010520091318.A85333@nc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010520135137.B39239@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>; from davidt@yadt.co.uk on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:51:37PM %2B0100 References: <200105200215.f4K2FqU02283@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010520084243.A84342@nc.rr.com> <20010520135137.B39239@gattaca.yadt.co.uk>
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David Taylor:
|On Sun, 20 May 2001, Randall Hopper wrote:
|> I pulled out my old message and it does have the pkg-plist in it. The
|> fault lies in FreeBSD's shar which apparently does not work except for text
|> files where the very last character is an EOL. It creates a shell archive
|> that FreeBSD's /bin/sh does not see the END-of-... marker for the file and
|> keeps tacking text from the next file into the previous.
|>
|> FreeBSD's shar needs a fix, or at least a CAVEAT listed in the man page.
|
|quote from man 1 shar:
|
|BUGS
| The shar command makes no provisions for special types of files or files
| containing magic characters. The shar command cannot handle files with-
| out a newline ('\n') as the last character.
|
|It appears to already mention that problem...
Sorry. I missed seeing that.
--
Randall Hopper
aa8vb@nc.rr.com
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