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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz |
Subject: |
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Apr 2004 09:47:43 +0200 |
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>>> "Sergey" == Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
Sergey> Returning to the question which format should be chosen for
Sergey> distribution tarballs: I would recommend the 'ustar' format.
Sergey> It also has a limitation on the maximum length of stored pathnames,
Sergey> but the limitation is 256 characters, which is reasonably large.
Sergey> Besides, ustar archives can be read by any existing implementation
Sergey> of tar.
By the way, the pax manpage from the Heirloom Toolchest
(http://heirloom.berlios.de/man/pax.1.html) mentions that "due
to implementation errors, file names longer than 99 characters
can not considered to be generally portable" when taking about
the ustar format.
I think it's the only place where I've read this. Has anybody
seen such implementation? I'm tempted to think we shouldn't
care.
--
Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, (continued)
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/19
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/20
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Paul Eggert, 2004/04/20
- Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/23
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- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Alexandre Duret-Lutz, 2004/04/19
Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/16
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness,
Alexandre Duret-Lutz <=
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/16
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Bob Friesenhahn, 2004/04/16
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Roger Leigh, 2004/04/16
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Ralph Schleicher, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Roger Leigh, 2004/04/17
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness, Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004/04/18