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Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness

From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl at src dot lip6 dot fr>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at CS dot UCLA dot EDU>
Cc: Roger Leigh <roger at whinlatter dot uklinux dot net>, automake at gnu dot org,bug-tar at gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:03:50 +0200
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness
References: <877jwzvnsk.fsf@wrynose.whinlatter.uklinux.net><2004-04-16-01-07-47+16795+adl@gnu.org><878ygwe7b2.fsf@penguin.cs.ucla.edu> <87vfk0z84n.fsf@src.lip6.fr>

>>> "adl" == Alexandre Duret-Lutz <adl@src.lip6.fr> writes:

[...]
 Paul> the existing code uses the -o option, which is [not portable]
[...]

Speaking about `o', I've just discovered that `missing' contains
some magic to strip that flag when tar fails, and retry.

It means that Roger's troubles should vanish once tar is changed
to report filenames too long for `o' with $? != 0.
-- 
Alexandre Duret-Lutz

References:
- AMTAR brokenness
  - From: Roger Leigh
- Re: AMTAR brokenness
  - From: Alexandre Duret-Lutz
- Re: [Bug-tar] Re: AMTAR brokenness
  - From: Paul Eggert

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