Re: svn commit: r8966 - trunk

breser@tigris.org writes:
...
> Log:
> Fix dist.sh to produce tarballs that can be read on platforms without
> GNU tar.
>
> Patch by Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
>
> Approved by jerenkrantz.
>
> * dist.sh
> Use cpio instead of tar to produce the tarballs.

Sorry for writing this _after_the commit (I'm not at home this days and
webmail is "a living hell") and sounding like a sour old man ;-)

Was the 100 char filename limit the only reason for this patch? If so, then
I think that this limit be old news. Newer GNU tars (> 1.11.8)are not
supposed to have this limit:
 http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/tar_117.html

Anyway, I have two suggestions where _one_ of them should be picked up IMHO:

1. If this patch, for any reason, should be approved (well it is committed,
so it is), then it should be merged to the 1.0.x branch as well. I'll be
happy to vote for it in the STATUS file(even if I like suggestion 2 below
better).

2. Revert it. KISS! ;-)

Jostein

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Received on Wed Mar 10 21:59:52 2004