Re: [libvirt] Bump tar format?
On 07/22/2015 08:44 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
1. rename the test case, making it shorter;
Works if we can do it, but I agree we should add a syntax check to
enforce it.
2. bump tar format from ustar, which has limitations on the length
of file names, to posix/pax, which has no such limitations.
Might be doable, if RHEL 5 autoconf/automake/tar supports it. Here's
where we switched to ustar:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2012-April/msg01435.html
commit 75ad8b67
and even then, we ran into problems with too-long symlinks (which are
processed differently than regular files).
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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