Re: MBF alert: packages with very long source / .deb filenames
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 08:56:14AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>On Fri, 25 Mar 2011, Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28:54PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>> >Steve McIntyre wrote:
>> >> There are uses I've heard about, including (apparently quite common)
>> >> using CDs and DVDs to seed a mirror on a Windows server.
>> >
>> >If I had to chose between that working, and not needing to worry about
>> >filename lengths, I'd choose the latter.
>>
>> We already have arbitrary limits on filename length (~200 bytes or so
>> on RockRidge), even before this. I'm just proposing to lower them for
>> a common use case. Do we really care about supporting *very* long
>> names here?
>
>I think so. The package with long names tend to follow a naming policy
>that sort of imposes the long name... so if we put a too-short limit
>then we're asking them to make an exception in the naming policy.
So what's a reasonable name length limit then? 80? 150? 2000?
>> >One approach then would be to omit joliet filenames for the few long
>> >packages. This would not even impact your use case above much, since
>> >any mirror seeded from files from CDs needs a further sync step.
>>
>> I'd be much happier to not have to special case yet another thing in
>> the CD scripts. That way potentially leads to unforeseen bugs in the
>> future, for very little gain.
>
>What happens if you try to put too-long filenames on the CD with Joliet
>enabled?
>
>Does it fail to build? Are there options to rename the files
>automatically?
It will fail to build. I don't want to rename the files, I'd like to
get some agreement on how to fix the problem properly.
>If it means we have some unexpected filenames for long filenames on
>Windows, it's not a big deal IMO.
For people who may want to verify the files on their CDs it might be.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
Is there anybody out there?
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