Henrik Grubbström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Henrik Grubbström wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > I need to create tar archives with deep paths on a Linux machine that
> > Solaris
> > 10's system tar (ie /bin/tar) can extract. If I read the manuals correctly,
> > this should be achievable by using the USTAR format.
> [...]
> > So the main difference seems to be that the file name is missing in the
> > record for the first long path in the gnutar case.
> >
> > Any suggestions for a patch?
>
> Suggested patch against 1.15.91 attached.
Could you tell more about the constraints?
While GNU tar by default still ctreates non-standard archives that
cause problems with tar archivers that don't understand the vendor unique
format used by GNU tar, my tests show since a year that GNU tar may handle long
path names correctly if you do the right things:
Either use DEFAULT_ARCHIVE_FORMAT=USTAR when calling configure
or call gtar -Hustar
What path names did you use to cause the problems?
Jörg
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