Joren's proposed fix for a too-conservative split point selection.

(Making building packages with long filenames difficult.)

diff --git a/commands/pax/tar.c b/commands/pax/tar.c
index f6861ded46a792eace9fa6272d15a6eb0540e4e9..3ec4e6649867dc3197bca8a54fb06b362497bea1 100644 (file)
--- a/commands/pax/tar.c
+++ b/commands/pax/tar.c
@@ -1094,6 +1094,11 @@ name_split(char *name, int len)
         * prefix we can find)
         */
        start = name + len - TNMSZ - 1;
+
+       /* Don't split at first '/'. */
+       if (start == name && *start == '/')
+               ++start;
+
        while ((*start != '\0') && (*start != '/'))
                ++start;