Re: Sumo tarball weirdness
* "Sandra" == Sandra Wambold <wambold(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Sandra> On 18 Nov 2000, Steve Youngs wrote:
>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)? I can't say that
>I've ever seen this behaviour before.
Sandra> I've seen this before. You packed with GNU tar, but Martin unpacked
Sandra> with a non-GNU tar. If you pack with a non-GNU tar (like the one
Sandra> shipped with Solaris), you won't have this problem.
With the likelihood that if I were to pack the sumo packages with
Solaris tar (for want of a better name) all the GNU tar users would
start seeing strange things and start complaining.
Sandra> You might want to look at the directory tree. Perhaps the filnames
Sandra> are just too annoyingly long.
Any idea how long "too annoyingly long" would be?
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