I apologize if this is actually documented somewhere outside of the code. I couldn't find it.
Currently, if your tarball looks like
since strip is set to 1, you lose file, and most annoyingly if your whole tarball is just single file name components, you lose everything in the extraction - I just wrestled with this case myself before I learned all this about tar and the strip option.
I propose documenting this stripping as core assumption of binary-install, so people know how to pack their balls.
I apologize if this is actually documented somewhere outside of the code. I couldn't find it.
Currently, if your tarball looks like
since strip is set to 1, you lose
file, and most annoyingly if your whole tarball is just single file name components, you lose everything in the extraction - I just wrestled with this case myself before I learned all this about tar and the strip option.I propose documenting this stripping as core assumption of
binary-install, so people know how to pack their balls.