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List:       fink-beginners
Subject:    Re: [Fink-beginners] Problem installing Fink-source on OS X 10.5.2
From:       Martin Costabel <costabel () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2008-06-04 18:28:12
Message-ID: 4846DEBC.105 () wanadoo ! fr
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Daniel E. Macks wrote:
[]
>>> -rwxr-xr-x root/admin      554 2002-11-15 23:51:13 ./sw/bin/._savelog
>>> -rwxr-xr-x root/admin     8391 2002-11-15 23:51:13 ./sw/bin/savelog
>>> -rwxr-xr-x root/admin      554 2002-09-28 22:34:43
>>> ./sw/bin/._sensible-editor
>>> -rwxr-xr-x root/admin      235 2002-09-28 22:34:43 ./sw/bin/sensible-editor
>> [etc]
>>
>> So it's not just /., but every file is being duplicated.
>> Strange; I have never seen anything like it.
> 
> The files installable by a .deb are actually a .tar within that .deb
> archive. Last year, we had a problem where Apple's tar suddenly and
> again started including extended attributes as a separate file in the
> tarballs it created. This has been a running battle, since they don't
> document but do periodically change how to disable this feature.  Fink
> presently sets some env vars that are supposed to solve it during the
> bootstrap (after which time, fink will bad installed its own tar that
> isn't supposed to do this):
> 
>   COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=1
>   COPYFILE_DISABLE=1
> 
> But maybe further games are needed (and/or they need to be played at
> times other than just one certain point in the bootstrap).

But these files don't have resource forks! I asked about "/" 
specifically, because on my machine here, this directory does have 
extended attributes (though no resource fork). Even the craziest tar I 
have seen does not duplicate files without a resource fork or extended 
attributes.

Other observation, if you are on an nfs file system, resource forks are 
always stored as ._* files, without tar needing to interfere. Any tar, 
with or without copyfile, will then copy these (really existing) ._* 
files. But this still doesn't explain where these resource forks should 
come from.

-- 
Martin


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