[Duplicity-talk] Tarfile support

[Ben Escoto]

The long-link bug was in the tarfile.py module, and I just noticed
that it is now part of Python's standard library (as of 2.3a2 I think)
and has had some bug fixes since I integrated the code into duplicity.
However, duplicity does not automatically inherit any fixes, because
it uses a hacked version of that code.  (I couldn't use the original
code directly because it wasn't suitable for building large volumes
only partially contained in memory and then postprocessing those with,
for instance, gpg.)

So this is clearly a non-ideal situation.  Perhaps I should try to get
my patches added to tarfile now that it is in the standard library
(before they were rejected).

But a longer term problem is that GNU tar isn't a very good format,
and I recently emailed and it wasn't clear when/if they were going to
add ACL/EA support.  I think the format that an archiver like star
uses is more standards compliant and better in other ways also.

I guess I haven't really asked a question, but comments on this issue
are welcome.


-- 
Ben Escoto

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