On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:53:58AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/27/2010 05:40 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote: > >Commit 66a04090673a5e21700d11bdea0084f1ee870c24 updated the > >API extention example patch series and added files that > >results in filenames longer than 99 chars during make dist. > >This is a problem because automake uses tar with the old v7 > >format during make dist. The v7 format is limited to 99 chars > >per filename. > > > >Use the newer and unlimited POSIX format instead. > > NACK. The whole point of using the v7 format is to be more portable to > more systems. Rather, we should fix the filenames to be shorter; I'm on > that. What kind of systems don't support the newer POSIX formats ? Are there actually any that are new enough for us to care about with libvirt ? We're effectively only targetting OS that were released in the last 5 years, so either tar-pax or tar-ustar might be well enough supported for our needs REgards, Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list