Use the tar Posix option for tarballs #358
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Please add a note why it is necessary. Something like "ustar format we used before could not handle files with > 65535" or so. This will help a lot with Git archaeology. |
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CondACK if the message is corrected. |
This is necessary to be able to successfully build archives in environments controlled by an IPA domain which may have large uidNumbers for user accounts. tar-ustar allows UID/GID numbers only up to 2 million and by default a new IPA installation can assigne UIDs in the billion range. https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6418 Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce <simo@redhat.com>
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Thanks, ACK! |
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Fixed upstream |
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This is necessary to be able to successfully build archives in
environments controlled by an IPA domain which may have large uidNumbers
for user accounts.
https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/ticket/6418
Signed-off-by: Simo Sorce simo@redhat.com