bug#8945: tar-ustar as a default for automake

2025-02-24 Thread Karl Berry
Hi Javier - back in 2011 (!), you suggested switching to ustar as the default tar format for Automake. Sorry for the absurdly late reply. This has now been done for the upcoming automake-1.18; see discussion in https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=74847. As I guess you know, both then and

bug#8945: tar-ustar as a default for automake

2011-06-27 Thread Javier Jardón
Hello, as discussed in this thread [1], i'd like to proposse switch to tar-ustar (seems that tar-pax support is broken in openbsd) as a default tar format. Currently we have some problem in GNOME project with some modules because the limitations of the current tar format. Best regards. [1] http