As Gentoo/FreeBSD uses app-arch/bsdtar as default tar application, the attached patch applied over current ebuild make tar be installed as 'gtar' (thus removing the need for /usr/bin/gtar symlink) and symlinks it to non-g prefixed on GNU userland system. This also makes simpler a future transition to a configurable /bin/tar symlink. Note: I've used ${USERLAND} to check to avoid QA notices, can be replaced with use use-expanded-var if anyone prefers. Thanks, Diego
Created attachment 61380 [details, diff] Ebuild patch
err no, this is not what i want ... on a GNU system, the only thing that should have a g is gtar
Created attachment 64996 [details, diff] Ebuild patch This should be better
i guess you're just going to ignore comment #2 ;)
You looked at the actual result of the patch? :) It's 1:1 the original bug tar -> gtar symlink.
ok, i missed the last for loop which renames everything ... thats kind of ugly :P did you double check to make sure the 'g' prefix wasnt recorded in the binary/manpages ?
Yep, binaries doesn't get data about the prefix as far as I could see, and manpages are always static (just get renamed in case you set the prefix, and it's not the case for tar, though).
sync up and try current 1.15.1
I've added the rm -f line to remove charset.alias (it gets created just for G/FBSD and G/OSX-Darwin, and on both of them it makes no sense on tar), for the rest works fine. Thanks
