* "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)arsdigita.com&gt; writes: Hrvoje> Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; 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. Hrvoje> That's simply an artifact of GNU tar. Believe it or not, the `tar' Hrvoje> format is quite broken and has arbitrary limitations on such things as Hrvoje> file name length, etc. Each tar program has its own ways of Hrvoje> circumventing these limits, 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)? I can't say that I've ever seen this behaviour before. -- |---<Regards, Steve Youngs>-----------[GnuPG KeyID: 59E4C4B2]---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor... | | It's a way of life. | |----------------------------------<mailto:youngs＠xemacs.org>---|

* "Sandra" == Sandra Wambold <wambold(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Sandra> On 18 Nov 2000, Steve Youngs wrote: 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? -- |---<Regards, Steve Youngs>-----------[GnuPG KeyID: 59E4C4B2]---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor... | | It's a way of life. | |----------------------------------<mailto:youngs＠xemacs.org>---|