[Python-Dev] Re: Problem with 2.3b2 tarfile? (original) (raw)

Harri Pasanen harri.pasanen@trema.com
Tue, 1 Jul 2003 10:08:08 +0200

On Monday 30 June 2003 23:19, Fran=E7ois Pinard wrote:

[Jeff Epler]

> the 100-char limit is traditional? Traditional. POSIX extends the limit somewhat, but the rules are very strange. There are two separated fields in the header, and whenever the second field is non-empty, a slash is to be implied between both, so you cannot cut the path string anywhere.

On HP-UX 11.x you hit the same problem than on Solaris, with a bit=20 different error message:

bash-2.05a$ /usr/bin/tar xf Python-2.3b2.tar tar: ././@LongLink - cannot create tar: ././@LongLink - cannot create =2E..

I've run into the same problem with our in-house software - my=20 solution was to use HP-UX 11.x tar to create the archive, both GNU=20 tar and posix tar will correctly unpack it.

Harri