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Re: Problems with a big package



Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> writes:

> There is a problem with dpkg's implementation of tar archives with
> long filenames, around 100 chars or so.  I think some of the star
> directories get pretty long.  Check the length of files around that 42
> meg boundary.
> 
> Klee - how difficult is this to fix?  Perhaps there is some nice tar
> implementation out there we could just drop in?

It's not just dpkg's implementation --- none of the POSIX archive
formats support arbitrary-length filenames (they either limit them to
100 or to 256 characters).  The long filename support in GNU tar is
GNU-specific, and has in fact changed several times during the
evolution of GNU tar.

I've changed dpkg to support GNU-format long filenames in 1.4.1.2.
Support for 100+ character symbolic/hard link targets still needs to
be added, but should be a less pressing problem.

There's a very raw pre-1.4.1.2 snapshot in my home directory on
master.debian.org --- I'm expecting to have a buildable release for
experimental late this week.





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