Re: [Gnu-arch-users] How to support arch on systems with a small PATH_MAX [WAS: arch o n windows?]

[John Meinel]

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Ron Parker wrote:
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| Actually, I think in the {arch} directory the flag should be
| +short-path.  This would make it precious instead of source.  I don't
| believe the flag should be checked into the archive, but it should be
| local to the invocation of init-tree, get, build-config, etc.
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| Otherwise, if someone does a get from a non-short-path archive on a
| POSIX-minimal system, they would have a new {arch}/=short-path and
| this would show up as a change and be checked back into the archive
| upon commit.  What an ugly screw up.  At that point all gets from the
| archive, would potentially create short-paths in the {arch} dir.
|
| I think a simple short-path file in the =meta-info directory would
| suffice for archives.

I agree. I think in {arch} it could be done locally, and would be
created by the local tla program. But in that way, whenever someone
creates a tarball the flag would be kept.

In the archive, I think it should just go into =meta-info/short-path

I would say short-paths, (note the plural) sounds better than the
singular form. But maybe that's just me.

John
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