[libvirt] Bump tar format?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed Jul 22 15:59:35 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:49:20PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-22 at 15:58 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 
> > > Any suggestions on how to proceed?
> > 
> > We've hit this many times before and always just shorten the file
> > names in GIT to avoid it.
> > 
> > Really we could do with adding a check for filename length to
> > make check to avoid this again.
> 
> Might not be trivial, as limits are apparently different for symbolic
> links and regular files, nevermind the fact that very similar versions
> of tar (eg. Fedora 22 and Fedora rawhide) don't behave the same.

It isn't that hard. The max symlink length is 100. 

> 
> Anyway, if bumping the tar format is not acceptable, I guess the only
> option is to shorten the name of the test case.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> -- 
> Andrea Bolognani
> Software Engineer - Virtualization Team

Regards,
Daniel
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