[libvirt] [PATCH] Tell automake to use tar-pax instead of tar-v7 for make dist

[Eric Blake]

On 10/27/2010 05:40 AM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> Commit 66a04090673a5e21700d11bdea0084f1ee870c24 updated the
> API extention example patch series and added files that
> results in filenames longer than 99 chars during make dist.
> This is a problem because automake uses tar with the old v7
> format during make dist. The v7 format is limited to 99 chars
> per filename.
>
> Use the newer and unlimited POSIX format instead.

NACK.  The whole point of using the v7 format is to be more portable to 
more systems.  Rather, we should fix the filenames to be shorter; I'm on 
that.

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