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

[Gary King]

Hi Jack,

Thanks for the patch. As Faré said, I'm hardly able to main ASDF-install right now (and though I once deluded myself that this was a temporary condition, it seems likely to stay that way (my apologies to all).

If you're interested in maintaining it, please let me.

I'd also recommend checking out clbuild and QuickLisp.

regards,

On Sep 6, 2010, at 12:18 AM, Faré wrote:

> 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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