[jira] Commented: (BEEHIVE-91) build.xml's "build.dist.tgz" produces corrupt archive

["Michael Merz (JIRA)" <be...@incubator.apache.org>]

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Michael Merz commented on BEEHIVE-91:
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build.xml uses Ant's tar task with the default value "warn" for the attribute "longfile". This generates .tar file for the distribution that can only be unzipped using Gnu's tools, particularly Gnu's tar utility. Currently, there is no standard approach to dealing with long pathnames, and besides omitting files with long pathnames, the Ant task only supports the "Gnu" way (which is probably also the most portable solution).
Thus, we should add a this dependency on the Gnu tools to the documentation, namely that the tar files must be untared with Gnu-tar or a compatible implementation.

> build.xml's "build.dist.tgz" produces corrupt archive
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>          Key: BEEHIVE-91
>          URL: http://nagoya.apache.org/jira/browse/BEEHIVE-91
>      Project: Beehive
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: Build
>     Versions: V1Alpha
>  Environment: Ant, tar
>     Reporter: Michael Merz
>     Assignee: Michael Merz
>      Fix For: V1Beta

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> The distribution contains files with pathnames longer than 100 characters. In that case, the filenames must be archived in USTAR format, which isn't supported by Ant's tar-task by default (org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Tar). "build.dist.zip" works fine.

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