On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:56:51PM -0500, Terry Hancock wrote:
On Monday 22 September 2003 03:31 pm, Jamie Heilman wrote:
This is usually indicitive of Zope being unpacked with something other than GNU tar.
You know, for the frequency this problem occurs you'd think something could actually be done about it that would solve it forever. Waiting for all the versions of tar in the world to suddenly agree on how to handle path names containing over 100 characters isn't a terribly effective approach. What would be really swift, is if Zope Corp just restructured their code so there were no longer any paths that exceeded said limit.
Well, since Gnu Tar is available to everyone, <snip>
So are most Windows viruses, that doesn't mean I should install it. There are many operating systems that do not ship with GNU tar including OpenBSD. If old style tar works, then there is no need to upgrade. Perhaps the solution is simply to add a note to the install instructions indicating that one should probably use GNU tar or something that handles long path names if/when problems are encountered. Maybe it's already in the FAQ somewhere and people just don't read it before screaming for help. Yup, it's there, right at the top under Installing Zope, maybe it needs pictures.. -- Dave =============================================================== | <- You must be smarter than this stick to ride the Internet -Mike Handler ===============================================================