Re: Sumo tarball weirdness
Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Hrvoje> That's simply an artifact of GNU tar. Believe it or
not,
Hrvoje> the `tar' format is quite broken and has arbitrary
Hrvoje> limitations on such things as file name length, etc. Each
Hrvoje> tar program has its own ways of circumventing these limits,
Hrvoje> and their methods are not compatible.
So, did Martin see this because he used a different tar program to
unpack than the one I used to pack (GNU tar 1.13)?
Yes, that would be my assumption.
I can't say that I've ever seen this behaviour before.
We don't pack up file names longer than 100 characters every day.