Re: Bug?: import-tars misbehaves on Subversion tarballs

From: Michael Loeffler <zvpunry@zvpunry.de>
Date: Apr 24, 2007, 08:25 UTC
Message-ID: <3BF34FC9-BE89-4A5B-9AC6-57F61C464395@zvpunry.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070424073907.GA22121@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

Hi,

Am 24.04.2007 um 09:39 schrieb Karl Hasselström:

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> import-tars behaves very oddly when I try to import the Subversion
> tarballs. (For example,
> http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.4.3.tar.bz2
> triggers this problem.) It creates two toplevel directories,
> subversion-1.4.3 and subversion-1.4.3subversion. The former seems to
> contain at least almost all files; the latter has only a handful of
> files, all with very long names.

I looked at this tarball with midnight commander (under MacOS X) and i saw 2 directories, subversion/ and subversion-1.4.3/. Then i looked at it with GNU tar (1.14) and saw only subversion-1.4.3/.

> Could it simply be that import-tars can't handle long filenames
> somehow? (This is pure speculation, since I know absolutely nothing
> about the tar format.)

I don't know, but mc does the same thing. I'll look at it later (i have more time at 18:00 +0200).

bye