Bug 213584

Summary:	tar's 'g' substitution flag is broken
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	David Naylor <dbn>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	Martin Matuska <mm>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Some People	CC:	romain
Priority:	---
Version:	10.3-RELEASE
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description David Naylor freebsd_committer

2016-10-18 05:37:48 UTC

When extracting a zip archive it may be required to replace the '\' with '/'.  To achieve this the following command is used:

# tar -s'|\\|/|g' -xf /path/to/zip

however the substitution only applies to the first occurance per file.  This has been confirmed to happen on FreeBSD < 11.  

See Port's commit 424052 for further details.

Comment 1 David Naylor freebsd_committer

2016-10-18 14:45:39 UTC

Assign to mm@, who did the last two updates to tar(1).

Comment 2 commit-hook freebsd_committer

2016-10-18 16:05:50 UTC

A commit references this bug:

Author: dbn
Date: Tue Oct 18 16:05:20 UTC 2016
New revision: 424173
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/424173

Log:
  lang/fsharp: fix build on FreeBSD < 11.

   - change substitution since make(1) on FreeBSD 9 does not like variables
     within a substitution.
   - repeat tar substitution command since tar(1) on FreeBSD 9/10 does not
     obay the 'g' substitution command.

  Reported by:    pkg-fallout
  PR:             213584

Changes:
  head/lang/fsharp/Makefile

Comment 3 David Naylor freebsd_committer

2018-12-11 07:20:01 UTC

With FreeBSD 10 EOL this is no longer a problem.