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From: Dimitrios Apostolou <jimis <at> gmx.net>
To: 19616 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling <at> fokus.fraunhofer.de>, Pavel Raiskup <praiskup <at> redhat.com>, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, bug-tar <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#19616: [automake patch] use --hard-dereference with GNU Tar (was: dist tarball contains hardlinks)
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:46:24 +0100 (CET)

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On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Mar 2015, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
>> 
>> I believe my only choice at this point is to forbid "make dist" if tar is 
>> detected to be old (less than 1.29), and keep doing --hard-dereference. I 
>> open to new ideas though. :-)
>
> The attached patch solves the problem in a more elegant manner IMHO, so I 
> plan to include this modified tar.m4 in my project.
>
> Review is welcome, and feel free to include to upstream automake.

Please ignore the previous patch. The one attached here has prettier 
printing and also works with GNU tar versions that don't return 64 in case 
of unrecognized option.


Thanks,
Dimitris

[0001-GNU-Tar-now-uses-hard-dereference-when-possible.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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