Re: [libvirt] Bump tar format?
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:57:02 -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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:
Do we actually really think that anybody would ever use a very recent
libvirt with a very old operating system? I think we should draw a line
at some point. </rant>
Also RHEL-5 tar can use --format=posix:
[root@rhel-5 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga)
[root@rhel-5 ~]# tar --format=posix -cvvf /tmp/garbage /etc/redhat-release
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
-rw-r--r-- root/root 55 2014-08-12 07:07:17 /etc/redhat-release
[root@rhel-5 ~]# tar --format=pax -cvvf /tmp/garbage /etc/redhat-release
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
-rw-r--r-- root/root 55 2014-08-12 07:07:17 /etc/redhat-release
Peter
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