From: Tom Rini <tom_rini@mentor.com>
To: <openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] automake: Fix issue with tar configure failing with large UID/GIDs
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 08:35:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E381933.2000502@mentor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E381902.6050408@mentor.com>
On 08/02/2011 08:34 AM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On 08/02/2011 08:19 AM, Phil Blundell wrote:
>> On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 03:14 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
>>> +-_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) pax cpio none'
>>> ++_am_tools='gnutar m4_if([$1], [ustar], [plaintar]) cpio pax none'
>>
>> Have you discussed that with upstream? If not, are you confident that
>> preferring cpio will not simply mean that we are swapping one deficiency
>> for another?
>
> A bug was filed with upstream automake. At issue is that pax does not
> fail gracefully when it cannot create ustar archives while cpio does.
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=8343 and should be in the
patch header...
--
Tom Rini
Mentor Graphics Corporation
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-02 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-02 8:14 [PATCH] automake: Fix issue with tar configure failing with large UID/GIDs Kumar Gala
2011-08-02 10:09 ` Richard Purdie
2011-08-02 15:09 ` Khem Raj
2011-08-02 15:19 ` Phil Blundell
2011-08-02 15:34 ` Tom Rini
2011-08-02 15:35 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2011-08-02 16:01 ` Kumar Gala
2011-08-02 16:04 ` Tom Rini
2011-08-02 16:08 ` Kumar Gala
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