Bug 232490

Summary:	app-office/openoffice-2.4.1 fails when bsdtar is used
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	bsd+disabled
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-20 16:35:58 UTC

Although my setup right now is a very tricky one that is not supported, I suppose the same would happen on Gentoo/FreeBSD where bsdtar is the default provider of the tar command.

With /bin/tar symlinked to /bin/bsdtar, openoffice fails in this way:

Creating GNOME .applications file for broffice.org ..
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/redhat
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/cde
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/debian
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/freedesktop
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/mandriva
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/var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/slackware
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tar: unrecognized option '--owner=root'
Usage:
  List:    tar -tf <archive-filename>
  Extract: tar -xf <archive-filename>
  Create:  tar -cf <archive-filename> [filenames...]
  Help:    tar --help
dmake:  Error code 1, while making '../../unxlngx6.pro/misc/slackware/empty.tar'
---* tg_merge.mk *---

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /var/tmp/portage/app-office/openoffice-2.4.1/work/ooo/build/OOH680_m17/sysui/desktop/slackware
make: *** [stamp/build] Error 1
 
[I suppose it's related to gnome USE flag too at this point.]

Although bsdtar has not a 100% GNU tar compatible interface it comes near enough and we decided before we'd be supporting as much as possible POSIX tar options rather than GNU extensions.

Also, I'm not sure why it's building stuff for slackware...

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-16 20:50:00 UTC

Hmm, are you still getting this with 3.0?

Comment 2 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-09 14:36:37 UTC

Doesn't look like so…