On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:02:05PM +0000, 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.
After following this discussion I'd be happy to accept a patch against Open vSwitch to use "tar-pax" format. Stephen, thanks for all the followup. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
