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Id: 29525
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Requestors: dagolden [...] cpan.org
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  Mon Jul 30 20:00:06 2007 dagolden [...] cpan.org - Ticket #28569: Ticket created
Subject: Avoid packaging resource forks with Mac Tiger tar
Mac Tiger's version of tar apparently bundles resource forks as hidden files starting with "._". In at least one case, Statistics-Benford-0.01, these appear to have been included in the released distribution (and then were detected by problems with Pod::Coverage testing) According to http://forums.macosxhints.com/archive/index.php/t-43243.html setting "COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true" in the environment will stop this behavior. It probably makes sense to have the Makefile set this environment flag for building the dist tarball when on Mac OSX.
  Thu Sep 20 19:00:00 2007 mcmahon [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Keeping ',_' files out of distribution tarballs on OS X
As reported to me in Date::PeriodParser-0.05, OS X's tar adds '._' files for every file in the distribution if any OS X program fiddles with or creates file resource forks (e.g., the Finder, TextMate) for files in the distribution. This can be blocked by setting COPY_EXTENDED_ATTRIBUTES_DISABLE=true in the shell that's executing the tar command. I have verified this as working properly when creating Date::PeriodParser-0.06. If the generated Makefile could set this in the shell used to make the tarball, it would prevent this from happening again - as far as I know, it's a no-op on any other Unixish system.
  Sat Dec 29 22:13:02 2007 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed, and also should be fixed in 10.5.
  Sat Dec 29 22:13:03 2007 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Sat Dec 29 22:13:04 2007 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'
  Tue Jan 01 05:59:18 2008 SREZIC [...] cpan.org - Ticket #28569: Correspondence added
On Mon Jul 30 20:00:06 2007, DAGOLDEN wrote: Show quoted text
> Mac Tiger's version of tar apparently bundles resource forks as hidden > files starting with "._". In at least one case, > Statistics-Benford-0.01, these appear to have been included in the > released distribution (and then were detected by problems with > Pod::Coverage testing)
Not only Pod::Coverage problems may happen, but the distribution may not build at all, because "._Makefile.PL" is also run and may fail with a syntax error. Or theye may be problems with signatures. Regards, Slaven
  Tue Jan 01 05:59:19 2008 The RT System itself - Ticket #28569: Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Jan 01 15:56:45 2008 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Ticket #28569: Merged into ticket #29525
  Tue Jan 01 15:56:46 2008 mschwern [...] cpan.org - Merged into ticket #29525