dir listing not starting with . and ..

[Søren Hauberg]

ons, 04 02 2009 kl. 11:20 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
> Shouldn't a package named foo-1.0.0.tar.gz unpack into a directory
> called foo-1.0.0?  If that's not already part of the definition of a
> package, then maybe it should be?  If we have this requirement, then
> I think it simplifies things a bit.

I think (not sure) that the packages in octave-forge unpacks in a
directory called 'foo' and not 'foo-1.0.0', and I think both of these
makes sense. The current code essentially does

  tmp_dir = create_tmp_dir ();
  untar (package_file, tmp_dir);
  source_dir = readdir (tmp_dir) {3}; # the first two are "." and ".."

The main reason for creating a temporary directory in the first place is
to make it easy to delete the files that was unpacked. And once we know
that all files/directories in 'tmp_dir' belongs to the package, I think
it's quite simple to just pick the first one that is listed.

Søren