force pgf to be remade; use ustar format to create containers (original report from Andre van Eyssen, 29 Jun 2009 19:25:52)

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@14033 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
index 441d24006e8..87a19e70377 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm
@@ -581,13 +581,22 @@ sub make_container {
     }
   }
   
-  # No owner/group options if we are being called on a user's machine to
-  # make a backup.  We only want these when we are making the master
-  # containers for tlnet. Also exclude .svn directories when making the
-  # masters.  We determine user vs. master by whether there's a revision
-  # suffix in the container name.
-  my @attrs = $containername =~ /\.r[0-9]/
-              ? () : ("--owner", "0", "--group", "0", "--exclude", ".svn");
+  # Here we need to distinguish between making the master containers for
+  # tlnet (where we can assume GNU tar) and making backups on a user's
+  # machine (where we can assume nothing).  We determine this by whether
+  # there's a revision suffix in the container name.
+  # 
+  # For the master containers, we want to set the owner/group, exclude
+  # .svn directories, and force ustar format.  This last is for the sake
+  # of packages such as pgf which have filenames long enough that they
+  # overflow standard tar format and result in special things being
+  # done.  We don't want the GNU-specific special things.
+  #
+  my @attrs
+    = $containername =~ /\.r[0-9]/
+      ? ()
+      : ( "--owner", "0",  "--group", "0",  "--exclude", ".svn",
+          "--format", "ustar" );
   my @cmdline = ($tar, "-cf", "$destdir/$tarname", @attrs);
   
   # Get list of files and symlinks to back up.  Nothing else should be