Re: Another weird tar issue (100 character filenames)
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:07, Roger Leigh wrote:
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> > (along with several other files). These filenames are indeed exactly 100
> > characters long, as mentioned in the referenced bug. The bug, however,
> > indicates that this may not have really been a bug in tar but rather was
> > a bug in dpkg with its inability to handle filenames that were exactly
> > 100 characters (apparently one isn't supposed to nul-terminate in that
> > case).
>
> It sounds like a bug that dpkg is using the old v7 tar format which
> had that 99 char limitation.s
>
> Why can't dpkg use the newer ustar or pax formats?
Bacause dpkg does not use libarchive yet.
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