> On 01/14/2015 01:15 PM, Finucane, Stephen wrote: > >> Thanks for the followup. I hope that the Automake maintainers consider > >> the issue. > > > > No reply after > 1 week. How could we proceed here, as I'm still unable > to run 'make dist' (without manual patching) in the interim? Based on my > conversation with Eric, it looks like this is something that could be > changed in a future Automake version but that could be months (or years > :eek:) away. Additionally, there doesn't seem to be anyway to change that > setting at compile time (which would be the preferred option). > > BTW ustar is not really a solution to large UID/GID problems either, see > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2013-02/msg00075.html > > Ever since that patch went in, tar-ustar is no longer usable for users > with 32bit UID/GID (such as typically created by FreeIPA at least). I'd > suggest going directly to tar-pax instead, compatibility shouldn't be an > issue since OVS doesn't target antique commercial unixen anyway. > > - Panu -
Ah...interesting. If Mr. Lattarini is to be believed, this change should have been in Automake 1.13.2, yet I'm using 1.13.4 and see no such issues (I haven't checked the Automake source to find the exact merge commit yet). Nonetheless, 'tar-pax' works fine for me and I'd be happy to submit an update using that format, assuming lack of support in those older Unixes is truly irrelevant. Stephen _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
