On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 09:57:02 -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 07/22/2015 08:44 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > 1. rename the test case, making it shorter; > > Works if we can do it, but I agree we should add a syntax check to > enforce it. > > > > > 2. bump tar format from ustar, which has limitations on the length > > of file names, to posix/pax, which has no such limitations. > > Might be doable, if RHEL 5 autoconf/automake/tar supports it. Here's > where we switched to ustar: Do we actually really think that anybody would ever use a very recent libvirt with a very old operating system? I think we should draw a line at some point. </rant> Also RHEL-5 tar can use --format=posix: [root@rhel-5 ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.11 (Tikanga) [root@rhel-5 ~]# tar --format=posix -cvvf /tmp/garbage /etc/redhat-release tar: Removing leading `/' from member names -rw-r--r-- root/root 55 2014-08-12 07:07:17 /etc/redhat-release [root@rhel-5 ~]# tar --format=pax -cvvf /tmp/garbage /etc/redhat-release tar: Removing leading `/' from member names -rw-r--r-- root/root 55 2014-08-12 07:07:17 /etc/redhat-release Peter
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