[asdf-install-devel] install-package confused by bsdtar on Mac OS X

Faré fahree at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 04:18:46 UTC 2010


On 24 June 2010 17:30, Jack Holloway <forum at sprucehead.com> wrote:
> The incompatibility with the version of tar on Mac OS has been noted
> before.
> The "tar" that comes installed on MacOS is "bsdtar" which prints an "x"
> flag at
> the beginning of lines.  install-package gets the wrong string for the
> package version.
>
> A suggested patch is [...]
>
Jack, are you interested in becoming asdf-install maintainer? Gary
doesn't seem to have much time for it.

On the other hand, the future seems to be quicklisp.

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