Re: The tar format problem continues

--On Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:11 AM -0800 Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
wrote:

> But even if we use star. It doesn't solve the problem with winzip.
> Winzip aparently doesn't read ustar formated archives. Which is the
> POSIX standard tar format. So even if we use star to produce ustar
> formats, winzip won't be able to handle them.

The line-endings will be corrupted even if we were able to get WinZip to
read it. I think the solution here is to create a CRLF-terminated checkout
and zip it up and post it alongside the LF-terminated tarballs. I don't
think we could trick a Unix svn client to create a CRLF checkout when
eol-style is 'native' in the repository - although that could be a *very*
useful feature here.

FWIW, httpd's RM only creates .tar.gz files and then someone with a Win32
box creates a zip file off the appropriate tag. Otherwise, the
line-endings are corrupted.

So, I'll advocate using pax for .tar.* files (as it seems to not have the
issue with bad timestamps that cpio did) and then finding another packaging
solution for the Win32 people. -- justin

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Received on Wed Mar 17 21:01:06 2004