Re: GnomeGoal proposal: change AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE to create xz compressed pax tarballs

[Olav Vitters <olav vitters nl>]

Jasper was very quick to respond.. quoting:
| ustar works fine, pax doesn't and leaves loads of files in the
| PaxHeaders.11713/ directory.


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:22:37PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:42:28PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > Now ~5.5 years later, so I think we're fine with PAX (Solaris has it
> > :P). I think it is better to be a bit more future proof (POSIX standard
> > + no limitations). I still want to check with *BSD + distributor-list.
> 
> For reference, I've made the following for Jasper from OpenBSD:
> http://people.gnome.org/~ovitters/tmp/gnome-bluetooth-2.91.92-pax.tar.bz2 1.3M
> http://people.gnome.org/~ovitters/tmp/gnome-bluetooth-2.91.92-ustar.tar.bz2 1.3M
> http://people.gnome.org/~ovitters/tmp/gnome-bluetooth-2.91.92-v7.tar.bz2 3.8M
> 
> pax is what I'd like to switch to

--> Doesn't work on OpenBSD

> ustar is the smallest one

--> Works on OpenBSD


Conclusion: ustar and perhaps prevent pax tarballs from being uploaded
(validation check in ftpadmin).
-- 
Regards,
Olav