Re: [Bug-tar] need help with tar output stability problem

[Bdale Garbee]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:59:03 -0800, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> This file name is exactly 100 bytes long, and if I recall, that used
> to be a problem area in GNU tar.  The 1.24 tarball contains a longlink
> representation of the file (which isn't right), whereas the 1.23 tarball
> is right.

Ugh.  Smoking gun.  I was carrying a patch around for ages to try and
work around this bug, which tripped a bug in dpkg for a while.  Finally
realized it was no longer needed and removed it from my build of 1.24.
So, Joey, I wonder if the tarballs you're seeing a size change on have
files with 100 byte filenames?  If so, sorry, but I'd been carrying
that patch around since 1.15.something, I think...

> Perhaps you got a prerelease version of 1.24, with bugs?  Did you build
> 1.24 from sources yourself?  Have you tried with 1.25?  What platform
> are you running GNU tar on, and how do you build GNU tar?

I'm pretty sure he's normally using my packages of tar for Debian, but
he was building from git this afternoon trying to track this down.

Bdale

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