#529: sdist creation code currently doesn't work with Solaris's tar ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.1 Severity: normal | Resolution: wontfix Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * status: new => closed * resolution: => wontfix Comment: Personally I have no plan to fix this. The `cabal sdist` works fine on all platforms because it uses Haskell tar code rather than any external tar program. The sdist command doesn't really belong in the Cabal lib anyway. It's not something you need to be able to build a package. It's a command line feature for developers and as such belongs in the cabal command line prog. If we need some per-package sdist hook in the Cabal lib it should be for preparing a source tree ready to be tarred up, it does not need to construct the actual tarball. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/529#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects