Re: Sumo tarball weirdness
Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org> writes:
* "Martin" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org>
writes:
Martin> On exploding the xemacs-sumo-2000-10-23.tar.gz tarball, I found this
Martin> odd file:
Martin> --------- 0/0 102 Dec 31 16:00 1969 ＠LongLink
Martin> This seems like a bug in the Sumo packaging. Please try to prevent
Martin> that from happening next Sumo release.
Will do. Thanks for letting me know about this, Martin.
That's simply an artifact of GNU tar. Believe it or not, the `tar'
format is quite broken and has arbitrary limitations on such things as
file name length, etc. Each tar program has its own ways of
circumventing these limits, and their methods are not compatible.