Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 17:46:48 -0800 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Hans Ottevanger <hansot@iae.nl> Cc: qa@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.5 RC2 and "@LongLink" Message-ID: <20020121014648.GN21973@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <3C4B508C.28FF02D@iae.nl> References: <3C4B508C.28FF02D@iae.nl>
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 12:19:40AM +0100, Hans Ottevanger wrote: > Cpio cannot read filenames longer than 100 characters, at least not in > the way tar deals with them. And of course the content of the @LongLink > file is a filename of 105 characters. The file itself is unpacked into > /usr/ports, but its name is truncated. BTW it is the only file with a > name longer than 100 characters in the whole ports distribution. Good find! I'll take this up with the port managers and see if they just want to rename the file for now. I'll also work on a src/release/Makefile patch to use tar instead of cpio for the ports distributions, although our tar has its problems too. Thanks, - Murray To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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