Re: squeeze amavisd-new requires updated pax.. add to backports?
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:26:28PM +0200, Cyril Lavier wrote:
> On 05/31/2011 10:21 PM, John Clements wrote:
> >-rw-r--r-- 1 clements clements 4294967306 May 31 13:16 foo
> >pax: ustar vol 1, 1 files, 10240 bytes read, 13814518390877841716 bytes written.
> >
> >... that is, it reports a size of (very large integer) for a tar file containing only one file of about 10 chars. This, in turn, means that the mail filter amavisd-new chokes on all .tar files that it receives.
> >
> >The updated version of pax (1:20090728-2) does not exhibit this behavior on my machine (debian squeeze, i686), and it appears to me that adding the updated version to either squeeze-backports or to squeeeze itself would be a good idea.
>
> I also think backporting pax would be a good idea.
>
> Maybe the issue is the same as reported on bug #317466 as
> apparently, your foo.tar weighs 4GB.
Thanks for the heads-up about this problem for Amavis users on squeeze.
I think this is actually #595482 (closed in pax 1:20090728-2). The CFLAGS
change also seems to fix #317466 as well though.
Nick
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