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Absolute paths in release tarballs... #12

Open jamesabbott opened 6 years ago

jamesabbott commented 6 years ago

I'm trying to package masurca for bioconda, however the conda build process is failing to successfully extract masurca tarballs. This is a result of the tarballs being created with a preceding '/' on the path, which conda build tries to extract equivalent to 'tar -P' , and subsequently fails to create a /MaSuRCA-3.2.4 directory.

I've raised this issue with the bioconda team who will try to resolve the issue upstream with the conda developers, but in the meantime would it be possible to generate release tarballs with relative paths (and no preceding '/').

Many thanks James

alekseyzimin commented 6 years ago

Hi, this is mainly a problem for Celera Asssembler, and unfortunately it is not straightforward to fix.

mbargull commented 6 years ago

Without context, I don't quite understand why a tool would expect tarballs with absolute paths. Can you elaborate or provide a link to some information on that requirement for Celera Assembler?