Re: BUG #4883: tar xf fails on NFS4 mounts

Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> It's required by the Single Unix Spec
>> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xcu/tar.html
>> (although that specifically disallows the ordering "oxf" that you
>> suggest) and I see it in tar on HPUX 10.20, which ought to be about
>> ancient enough for anybody.

> My old BSD has:

> -o Write very old style tar archive, omitting the storage of direc-
> tories.

Yeah, and we later found out that it was horribly broken in GNU tar
1.14, which is still out there. So it got reverted.

I'm currently thinking that the best solution is to dodge the problem
entirely by getting rid of the sub-tarballs. There's no very good
reason why we don't ship those generated doc files "loose" in the
tarball. The man files are already extracted into man1/ and man7/
as the first step of using them, so we should just make that be the
shipped state of the tree. The .html files could similarly be dumped
into an html/ subdirectory after they're created, instead of being
wrapped up in a tarball.

regards, tom lane