At 20:48 +0200 1999-05-11, Christian Hammers wrote:
Hello list ! Well tar has no problems with filenames that are longer than 100 chars. It just keeps printing ././@LongLink for every file but unpacks without problems. But now lintian starts complaining about it (hey, ././ *is* a uncommon directory :-)) but even worse dpkg refuses to unpack it since it claims that the tarball is corrupt ! How to solve this ?
This is a long standing bug in dpkg-deb, it uses tar to make the debs, but it does unpacking by itself, unfortunately, its tar dearchiving code does not support the GNU extensions for long pathnames.
There are two patches in the BTS to fix this, but neither one is in dpkg yet. -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) Debian GNU/Linux Developer <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:http://www.debian.org/>