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Date:      Sat, 19 Oct 2002 08:00:45 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>, Martin Blapp <mbr@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/openoffice-devel Makefile distinfo pkg-message pkg-plist ports/editors/openoffice-devel/files debugpatch-setup2::mow::source::loader::loader.c debugpatch-solenv::inc::unx
Message-ID:  <20021019050045.GA14922@vega.vega.com>
In-Reply-To: <200210190415.g9J4FAH0083715@intruder.bmah.org>
References:  <20021018233203.GA85166@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021019013520.E90671-100000@levais.imp.ch> <20021019021321.GA87745@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021018194359.A46176@FreeBSD.org> <200210190415.g9J4FAH0083715@intruder.bmah.org>

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On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:15:10PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> If memory serves me right, Juli Mallett wrote:
> > * De: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> [ Data: 2002-10-18 ]
> > 	[ Subjecte: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/openoffice-devel Makefile dis
> > tinfo pkg-message pkg-plist ports/editors/openoffice-devel/files debugpatch-s
> > etup2::mow::source::loader::loader.c debugp
> > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 01:36:05AM +0200, Martin Blapp wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > > Just a reminder that patch pathnames
> > > > > (/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/patch-blablabla) must be kept
> > > > > below 100 characters in order to not break people who create tarballs
> > > > > of the ports collection.
> > > > 
> > > > Ok. The longest patch has 68 chars, so I'm still below that. Uff
> > > 
> > > # echo /usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel/ | wc -c
> > >       37
> > > 
> > > # echo $((37+68))
> > > 105
> > 
> > Uhm, no.  +6 for files/
> 
> But then take off another 5 characters because /usr/ isn't a part of 
> the pathname in the archive.
> 
> Anyways, this too long, both in terms of pathname length and the number
> of messages we've spent discussing this.  :-)

Isn't this solved with introduction of modern tar(1), which can handle
paths up to 250 characters long? Or we aren't switched to the creation
of ustar format archives for the release yet? Looks like a inexcusable
omission to me if so, because patches for this were submitted by me
to the re@ team before 4.6-RELEASE, but back then were voted down, because
it was noticed that old tar(1) shipped with 4.6 was unable to properly
extract archives in the ustar format. I've supposed that those patches
were included into 4.7, but actually never bothered to check for sure.
Please at least include them into 5.0, so that the problem is closed
once for all.

-Maxim



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