Re: [PATCH 2/3] gnu: Add UnQLite.

[Ludovic Courtès]

David Thompson <address@hidden> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Eric Bavier <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> The official distribution is somewhat of a mess.  The zip archive
>>> requires a patch that must be applied during a build step because our
>>> patch-and-repack can't handle "tarbombs".
>>
>> What do you mean by “tarbombs”?
>
> A tarball that doesn't store it's contents within a root directory, that
> pollutes the directory you unpack it in.

Oh OK, I didn’t know there was a name for that.  :-)

So indeed, ‘patch-and-repack’ doesn’t handle it, and the ‘unpack’ phase
may not do what you’d expect, assuming there is something to be
expected.

Ludo’.