Re: [Duplicity-talk] Error "Bad tarinfo name ././@LongLink"

[Rob Browning]

Ben Escoto <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>>> "RB" == Rob Browning <address@hidden>
>>>>>> wrote the following on Sun, 09 Mar 2003 17:00:19 -0600
>
>   RB> Right, though I'll probably need to add some annotations to the
>   RB> source so I can see roughly where it is when it fails, so I'll
>   RB> know which files are likely culprits.
>
> Ok, then if just raising the verbosity (like -v7 or similar) doesn't
> work, you can try adding some print statements, like this patch to
> diffdir.py does:

OK.  Here's a very small test case -- shows tarfile.py returning a
file named "././@LongLink" for an (included) one-file tarfile.

I believe the file it fails on is
snapshot/home/rlb/src/dri/build/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/darwin/bundle/Spanish.lproj/Localizable.strings,
which itself is a very long symlink.

To demonstrate, just untar this tarfile, cd test-longlink-bug, and run
./test-tarfile.py.

Hope this helps.

test-longlink-bug.tgz
Description: test-longlink-bug.tgz

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