Re: [PATCH] Change to ustar for filenames >99 length

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 14:21 +0200, Robert Buchholz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> please consider the attached patch for inclusion in NetworkManager 0.7 
> trunk. By default, Automake generates 'v7' tar archives on 'make dist', 
> which do not allow files with more than 99 characters in the path name. 
> This becomes an issue when you append data to the version number (as I 
> do for unreleased snapshots), and can be seen here:

svn r3982

Thanks!
Dan


> =====================================================================
> tardir=NetworkManager-0.7.0_pre20080807 && /bin/sh ./missing --run tar 
> chof - "$tardir" | GZIP=--best gzip -c 
> >NetworkManager-0.7.0_pre20080807.tar.gz
> tar: 
> NetworkManager-0.7.0_pre20080807/system-settings/src/org.freedesktop.NetworkManagerSystemSettings.service.in: 
> file name is too long (max 99); not dumped
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> =====================================================================
> 
> The patch enables such filenames by changing to the 'ustar' tarfile 
> format.
> 
> Regards,
> Robert
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