Bug 903921 (tar-without-file)

Summary:	[TRACKER] Packages calling tar without -f
Product:	Quality Assurance	Reporter:	Arsen Arsenović <arsen>
Component:	Trackers	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	bertrand
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	885719, 903631, 903914, 903919, 940201, 940217
Bug Blocks:

Description Arsen Arsenović gentoo-dev

2023-04-06 15:56:54 UTC

This bug is intended to track packages that invoke GNU tar without specifying a -f/--file.

This can break on certain systems (or with certain tar implementations).

To detect this issue, configure GNU tar with DEFAULT_ARCHIVE=/dev/null/BAD_TAR_INVOCATION, like so:

  ~$ cat /etc/portage/env/app-arch/tar 
  EXTRA_ECONF="DEFAULT_ARCHIVE=/dev/null/BAD_TAR_INVOCATION"

See '(tar)file tutorial' for a description of how the default is picked.