From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	<djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	RE: Cygnus tree in SFN, again
Date:	Sat, 10 Feb 2001 15:22:55 +0100
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>  Is it possible automatically leave out a set of
> directories when extracting an archive? If an user
> gets a stock gcc-3.0.tar.bz2 from FSF FTP site, there will
> be libjava and gcc/testsuite directories. I'd like
> to silently skip them on extracting. I can't just
> extract and ignore them, because there are SFN conflicts,
> and I'm too lazy to solve them. So what I need is an
> opposite of '-o' option in djtar. Any solutions, or
> should I patch djtar?

a) If there are 8.3 conflicts (ie foobar123.c and
   foobar123-xyzzy.c both exist), you should submit a
   patch to the maintainers to get this fixed. Even if
   it won't get accepted, you need to make sure they
   know about the problem.  When I get my system fully
   operational (soon now), I plan to do the same for
   binutils (which is rife with such conflicts, though
   luckily not for files DJGPP needs).
b) Can't you use fnchange.lst to use 'NUL' as new name
   for the conflicting files? That would send them to
   the bit bucket, wouldn't it? I suppose you'd still
   be stuck with the directories, but that's probably
   not that bad.

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