tar limited by filename length (<100 chars)

[Glenn L. McGrath]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 09:00:01 +0930
Ian W Roberts <iroberts at netspace.net.au> wrote:

> <http://ipkg.openmss.org/experimental/busybox_1.0-6_mipsel.ipk>. I find 
> that it can't save into archives files with pathnames >100 chars in 
> length.

What tar program did you use to create the tar archive ?

I vagualy remember that GNU tar doesnt use the path field, and if the
filename exceeds 100 characters it uses GNU style long filenames.

There is a tar program called star, its pretty good, im sure it
properly seperates the filename and path, you could give that a go.

You should set the "Enable support for some GNU tar extensions" config
setting if you want to support GNU style long filenames.


Glenn