request: limit patch file names to 100 characters

[Martin Wilke]

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On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 10:17:50PM +0800, Martin Wilke wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 05:09:45AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I just uncovered a slight glitch in portsnap while doing my latest testing:
> > It has problems with the www/seamonkey port due to the patch file
> > "patch-mozilla-media-webrtc-trunk-src-modules-audio_device-main-source-linux-latebindingsymboltable_linux.cc".
> > 
> > More precisely, because this file name is 107 characters long, it can't fit
> > into a ustar header, so bsdtar switches to the pax extended format, which
> > contains additional information like the access time and inode #, which of
> > course changes from run to run of the portsnap build code.  As a result, this
> > one port is identified as "changing" every single time the build runs.
> > 
> > Gecko folks, would you mind renaming this to something shorter?

Done!

> > 
> > Portmgr, can we have a policy of "no file names over 100 characters"?
> > 
> 
> 
> I think that should be fine.
> 
> 
> > I can work around this by hacking up the copy of tar on the portsnap buildbox
> > to exclude the changing fields, but I'd prefer to minimize the hurdles facing
> > anyone else who wants to use the portsnap build code.
> 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Colin Percival
> > Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> > Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
> > 
> 
> -- 
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> With best Regards,
> 		Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)
> 
> 
>           Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest
> 
> 
> 

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With best Regards,
		Martin Wilke (miwi_(at)_FreeBSD.org)


          Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest


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