Re: [Module::Build] Archive::Tar file format

[Jos I. B. <ka...@dw...>]

On 7-jan-04, at 3:35, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> The way I see things, after installing the A::T 1.07 on Windows  
> (hadn't notice 1.08 yet, Randy has sharp eyes!), I would use M::B to  
> build a module's .tar.gz and .ppd file, and then there were 3  
> symptoms, that may or may not be related.
>
> 1) During the build of the .tar.gz, warnings were printed about not  
> being able to add directory entries to the archive.
by A::T? if so, can you provide me with a test case?

> 2) Most TAR decoding programs cannot see the PATH data, although the  
> latest GNU TAR can
yes, apparently (especially on windows) there's many clients that  
follow an old(er) spec. Although i am still of the same opinion that  
these clients are just inherintly broken, I do have a thought on how we  
may be able to amend this;

Can one of you who had trouble with the extracting confirm that when  
extracting this tarball

	http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KAKE/Bot-BasicBot- 
Pluggable-Module-SimpleBlog-0.02.tar.gz

everything actually goes as expected, and that a file named
	
	Bot-BasicBot-Pluggable-Module-SimpleBlog-0.02/lib/Bot/BasicBot/ 
Pluggable/Module/SimpleBlog/Store/SQLite.pm

is living in the extracted directory?

If so, we could use the ././@LongLink extended tar format solution,  
which is
really meant to be used for paths > 255 chars, but will work equally  
well for
our purposes here... i'd equip A::T with a special flag that would  
trigger the
use of ././@LongLink files at anything over >100 chars, rather than at  
 >255,
thus avoiding the use of the PREFIX header, and thus (hopefully)  
solving your
problems :)

> 3) PPM claims to install the module, but nothing actually gets  
> installed.  M::B can install the module fine from the source  
> directory.  Given the other symptoms, it seems like it can't find the  
> files in the archive, but it reports no errors.
not much i can do with this one

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Jos Boumans

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