Bugzilla Bug 168824

Currently rpmbuild (part of RPM ebuild) has a problem with tar 1.16-r2 when
trying to build an rpm from a tarball where the spec is inside the tarball and
I try to run something like this:

rpmbuild -tb cchost-4.0.1.tar.gz

I tracked down an email post about this incompatibility too: 

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00054.html

and

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-01/msg00057.html

Here are the current versions of rpm and tar I have installed. I'm going to try
and fix by upgrading tar, but am not hopeful.


[U] app-arch/rpm 
     Available versions:  4.4.6-r3 (~)4.4.6-r4 (~)4.4.7-r1 (~)4.4.7-r2
[M](~)4.4.7-r3
     Installed:           4.4.6-r4(15:48:23 02/28/07)(-doc nls perl python
sqlite)
     Homepage:            http://www.rpm.org/
     Description:         Red Hat Package Management Utils


[U] app-arch/tar 
     Available versions:  1.15.1-r1 (~)1.16-r1 1.16-r2 (~)1.16.1
     Installed:           1.16-r2(22:33:36 12/23/06)(nls -static)
     Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
     Description:         Use this to make tarballs :)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

I'm just trying to build rpms for my various software packages.

I just confirmed this does not work with tar 1.16.1

Bummer!

It does not look it like works with my new ebuild in
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190132 and tar 1.18...I am going to
consider whether this should go upstream.

rpm-5.0_alpha4 now in the tree