So, is there any objection to changing the tar compatibility in release
tarballs?
--Ted
On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 14:11 -0800, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 20:48 +0100, Luca Bruno wrote:
> > This is to ensure portability even to old format of tar, in particular
> > tar V7, please see:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_chapter/tar_8.html
> >
> > This behaviour can be changed for automake, see:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/html_node/Options.html
>
> To quote the page:
>
> tar-pax selects the new pax interchange format defined by POSIX
> 1003.1-2001 . It does not limit the length of file names.
> However, this format is very young and should probably be
> restricted to packages that target only very modern platforms.
> There are moves to change the pax format in an upward-compatible
> way, so this option may refer to a more recent version in the
> future.
>
> So are we really concerned about people who have GTK+ 2.10 but not a tar
> implementation that is less than 7 years old?
>
> --Ted
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