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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Rodney Crossman <ro...@ravenetcomputers.com> on 2004/07/21 17:06:26 UTC

winzip and tar.gz files unpacking into 2 directories instead of 1??

subversion
          \
           bindings
                   \
                    java

subversion-1.x.x
                \
                 everything else

Is this a winzip bug caused by some weird way your packing them?? 
Winrar works fine, its just winzip doing this.

I apologize if this has been mentioned before but a quick search of the
recent archive didn't come up with anything.

Rodney

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Re: winzip and tar.gz files unpacking into 2 directories instead of 1??

Posted by Klaus Rennecke <kr...@tigris.org>.
Rodney Crossman wrote:

> subversion
>           \
>            bindings
>                    \
>                     java
> 
> subversion-1.x.x
>                 \
>                  everything else
> 
> Is this a winzip bug caused by some weird way your packing them?? 
> Winrar works fine, its just winzip doing this.
> [...]

This will be the result of every program that is not able to handle the 
prefix extension of POSIX.1 format TAR. The .../bindings/java path 
contains file names that exceed 100 characters and thus need the prefix 
extension.

More details: http://www.contactor.se/~dast/svn/archive-2004-03/0364.shtml

If only the uni*es had all the new GNU tar implementation, then it would 
be feasible to release in that format.

Apache ANT handles only GNU tar format too.

My approach: install cygwin.

/Klaus


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