Re: filenames with more than 100 chars ?
On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:48:16PM +0200, 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 ?
Welcome to the wonderful world of mysql-bench :-) Apparently dpkg doesn't support
long file names....I was told that there were several patches out there for it,
and that iwj just has to 'pick one'....
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