Re: Hamm Bug Stamp-Out List now on www
Raul Miller wrote:
> I've pulled down the gnu cpio from a prep mirror, and it seems to
> be able to cope with the format (also, it's supposed to try
> to recover from errors). However, it gave a rather odd sequence
> of errors:
>
> /usr/local/bin/cpio: ././@LongLink not created: newer or same age version exists
This is only a feature of GNU tar. That's the GNU way to handle
very long paths in tar files. Even dpkg-deb can't handle that, afaik.
(Try to unpack a .deb with paths that are >100char's long)
Regards,
Joey
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