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

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

On Jan 13, 2004, at 9:59 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 1/13/2004 12:22 AM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of Jos I. Boumans:
>> On 12-jan-04, at 19:38, Glenn Linderman wrote:
>> what needs to happen to make this work with M::B is:
>> A) patch M::B to use the $Archive::Tar::DO_NOT_USE_PREFIX flag
>> B) create an archive with M::B from a dir structure with at least one 
>>  file of > 100
>>     chars, like in:
>>     http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/K/KA/KAKE/Bot-BasicBot- 
>> Pluggable-Module-SimpleBlog-0.02.tar.gz
>> C) attempt to extract this file with your tar extractor of choice
>
> Why should I make my module have a file of > 100 chars?  Such a name 
> is much too long, in my opinion, for this module of interest.
*sigh*

illustrated above is the way to guarantee that M::B will work properly 
with every archive A::T will create. The problem that came to light by 
your test case was an incompatibillity issue with older tar clients. 
This particular problem has been fixed as described in a previous mail, 
and i'm waiting for results from the testers (ie you and randy).

> I believe that you have my test case, and can see that there are no 
> files with names > 100 chars.
your test case is no longer relevant here, as stated above, since it 
merely pointed at the incompatibillity, rather than using it in the 
'worst case possible'.

> If the problems with PowerArchiver (and other utilities) seeing 
> pathnames are related to pathnames that are longer than 100 
> characters, why are those other utilities having problems displaying 
> the directory names from the output of A::T when the pathnames are 
> less than 100 characters?
>
> I think we are still missing something here.
no, still same problem -- A::T uses the prefix header (even sometimes 
for paths < 100 characters) and older clients just don't recognise 
it...

On Jan 20, 2004, at 4:40 AM, Glenn Linderman wrote:

> On approximately 1/13/2004 12:59 AM, came the following characters from
> the keyboard of Glenn Linderman:
>
>> Especially, because I still don't know why people are fixing and 
>> discussing > 100 character pathnames, when my test case that fails 
>> doesn't have any!
> Any progress on this point yet?  I've been away for a few days, but 
> didn't see any new traffic on the topic.

point A) from the above list needs to first be adressed and tested

--

Jos Boumans

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