snapshots (archive files) are too big ... Why?

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jan 23 21:13, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > I found out why this happens, I just don't know why it only occurs since
> > 2015-07-20.
> 
> Looks like this patch
> 
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/tar.git/commit/?id=132f2c79628ff5f11bb7d41c5c34f94228d63c54
> 
> and the following two fixups would be a likely source of that change in
> behaviour and it was probably the following package update that threw
> the script off course.

Looks like you nailed it.  It seems these patches have gone upstream in
the first place, there just hasn't been a new tar version released yet.

Eric, any chance you could include these patches in a new tar release as
well to catch up with Fedora (or nudge the tar maintainers to release
1.29)?


Thanks,
Corinna

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