[task #15699] Unified format for software tarballs

[Mohammad Akhlaghi]

Follow-up Comment #9, task #15699 (project reproduce):

In the (long!) process of updating the Maneage software and unifying the
tarball format, I have found one package so far that has long file names (and
fails with the ustar method): Boost <https://www.boost.org>. 

So to have a single place for future reference, here is the updated
command-set (with comments!) to use:


 odir=ORIGINAL_DIR
suffix=ORIGINAL_SUFFIX
name=PACKAGE_NAME_VERSION

tar -xf $odir/$name.tar.$suffix \
    && tar -c -Hustar --owner=root --group=root \
           -f $name.tar $name/ \
    && lzip -9 $name.tar \
    && rm -r $name/

# If 'tar' fails with 'file name is too long (cannot be split)',
# make the following change: '-Hustar' --> '-Hpax'.


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