Dealing with tarballs that tarbomb

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Apr 5, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:

> Elias Pipping wrote:
>> On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:21 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>> Thanks, that's what I ended up going with, however, using file mkdir 
>>> ${worksrcpath} instead of the system.
>>>
>> how about 'xinstall -d'?
>
> Don't the 'file subcommands' commands not shell out?  Which is a good 
> thing to practice.
>
> Regards,
> Blair


	Shelling out is indeed something to avoid, which is why xinstall is 
also a good choice as it doesn't shell out either. xinstall is a 
MacPorts built-in command written in C and defined in svn 
base/src/pextlib1.0/xinstall.{c,h}. File commands and xinstall flags 
differ in their handling of extended attributes as documented in 
portfile(7), but in the case of creating directories I'd think they're 
completely equivalent.

	HTH!

-jmpp