[tex-live] subversion config files

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:17:35AM -0400, George N. White III wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Vladimir Volovich <vvv at vsu.ru> wrote:
> 
> > "LM" == Lars Madsen writes:
> >
> >  >> Good hint. ... I believe I know where it comes from... no, I am
> >  >> REALLY sure....
> >  >>
> >  >> It was the bug fix that some tars cannot handle long lists of
> >  >> files, so we collapsed directories, but now that includes also
> >  >> the .svn dirs.
> >
> > hm - was it a workaround for TAR on host which creates TL packages?
> > aren't you under control which tar is installed there?
> 
> I suspect it was not tar but shell command-line limits that restrict
> use of long lists of files.

A workaround would then be using option

|       -T, --files-from=F
|              get names to extract or create from file F

But I don't know, whether this is an extension from GNU-tar.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>