Running mvn install in MacOS causes error

[theomails]

Running mvn install in MacOS causes this error:

failed: group id '884470207' is too big ( > 2097151 ). Use STAR or POSIX extensions to overcome this limit

Refer similar issue in other projects:
mdht/mdht-models#88
elastic/elasticsearch#11824

[carlspring]

@cbrianhill ,

I remember you investigated this in #1115, right?

@theomails , have a look at the issue and perhaps you and @cbrianhill could have another look at the issue?

[syakubov]

Just to add to this, I just built it on mine and it worked fine. My ID's are rather low though, < 500. So I guess I could just confirm that it's not the case on all macs. Also, I did use mvn clean install, so maybe that was different.

[theomails]

If you look at the first external issue that I referred to:
mdht/mdht-models#88

The solution is simply to change the tarLongFileMode from gnu to posix

If tar file mode posix supersedes gnu in every way, then we could simply upgrade.

If someone has a good idea about tar modes, they could confirm whether this would be a general fix!

[syakubov]

So the issue is to see whether changing it to posix would cause any problems?

[carlspring]

@theomails , @syakubov : Have you guys had a look at #1115?

@cbrianhill : Ping? :)

[cbrianhill]

Hi @theomails, the issue with the posix tar file extensions is that some utilities don't support them. See the comment at #1115 (comment) for an example, the Midnight Commander (mc) Linux utility doesn't support them, and unfortunately ends up extracting files with truncated paths. It was a tough call, but we wanted the tar files to work with as many systems and utilities as possible, and set ourselves up so we could support using mc on the tar file.

For devs on Macs, the workaround is to create a local user with a lower UID and GID.

[carlspring]

We're open to advice and if anyone is interested in further investigating this under Mac, please, let us know!

[adavid9]

@carlspring I am using Mac OS and without any issues I am able to compile the project and run mvn clean install it works fine also with mvn install it could be closed I think.

[steve-todorov]

Thanks for reporting things are working @adavid9! It looks like this issue is appearing only for some MacOS users and not all of them.