[PATCH 2High Priority: Fix for "tar: Cowardly refusing to create an empty archive" from 'make tarball'

Shawn Wells shawn at redhat.com
Tue Apr 24 03:38:05 UTC 2012


On 4/23/12 12:49 PM, Spencer R. Shimko wrote:
> Hm I thought I fixed this.  It was popping up due to simply expanded
> variables on first-pass/bare builds only.  TAR_DEPS should be recursively
> expanded later once DIST has been populated with files. So this fix is
> probably addressing the symptom but not the source of the issue regarding
> variable expansion.
>
> NACK on this one for now and I'll try to take a look later today.

Sounds good to me! I'll watch out for the patch.


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