On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:07, Roger Leigh wrote: --cut-- > > (along with several other files). These filenames are indeed exactly 100 > > characters long, as mentioned in the referenced bug. The bug, however, > > indicates that this may not have really been a bug in tar but rather was > > a bug in dpkg with its inability to handle filenames that were exactly > > 100 characters (apparently one isn't supposed to nul-terminate in that > > case). > > It sounds like a bug that dpkg is using the old v7 tar format which > had that 99 char limitation.s > > Why can't dpkg use the newer ustar or pax formats?
Bacause dpkg does not use libarchive yet. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
