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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@hadrons.org> | 2018-11-22 02:39:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-11-28 14:31:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 38e75bb3c6c4c41ff80697876aa7498c80a8623a (patch) | |
| tree | f32d73b8380618d9937d8f61dc0b934cd2b7f21d /Help/cpack_gen | |
| parent | 0fc6faf2ddfb146704146d13b71bfd048128917f (diff) | |
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CPack/Deb: Remove paxr as a supported tar format for a .deb
The only format supported from the ones available within cpack is
gnutar, which supports large numbers encoded in base-256, and long
filenames and linknames. PAX is not and has never been a supported
format by dpkg.
Fixes: #18620
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/cpack_gen')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst index 66f7239..23f0515 100644 --- a/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst +++ b/Help/cpack_gen/deb.rst @@ -205,18 +205,18 @@ List of CPack DEB generator specific variables: The archive format used for creating the Debian package. * Mandatory : YES - * Default : "paxr" + * Default : "gnutar" - Possible values are: + Possible value is: - - paxr - gnutar .. note:: - Default pax archive format is the most portable format and generates - packages that do not treat sparse files specially. - GNU tar format on the other hand supports longer filenames. + This variable previously defaulted to the ``paxr`` value, but ``dpkg`` + has never supported that tar format. For backwards compatibility the + ``paxr`` value will be mapped to ``gnutar`` and a deprecation message + will be emitted. .. variable:: CPACK_DEBIAN_COMPRESSION_TYPE |