On 01/14/2015 02:02 PM, Finucane, Stephen wrote:
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.
I dont remember the automake version I first encountered that, it was on
another project which had already been using ustar for several years but
then at some point during 2013 it started whining about large UIDs.
Looking at
http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_section/tar_68.html the old
v7 and ustar format share the same limit with UID/GID. Maybe the checks
are buggier in some versions :)
As if the stored UID/GID in dist tarballs were somehow meaningful to
begin with, sigh...
- Pan u-
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