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| author | Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> | 2017-11-27 12:14:35 +0100 |
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| committer | Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> | 2017-11-27 12:17:46 +0100 |
| commit | b192b2d110cd28d43e912513364ed71ba0b0f82e (patch) | |
| tree | 9b04e4cc884619cf57dde8f5d673e206f6b42a6c /README.RELEASE_PROCESS | |
| parent | 88e257c15201001d99b0639385646f162cdaf7fc (diff) | |
| download | php-git-b192b2d110cd28d43e912513364ed71ba0b0f82e.tar.gz | |
Add note on PAX headers in tarballs
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| -rw-r--r-- | README.RELEASE_PROCESS | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/README.RELEASE_PROCESS b/README.RELEASE_PROCESS index c735d5e263..dac6b2c8bc 100644 --- a/README.RELEASE_PROCESS +++ b/README.RELEASE_PROCESS @@ -187,7 +187,11 @@ credits files in ext/standard. 9. run: ``PHPROOT=. ./makedist php 5.4.1``, this will export the tag, create configure and build three tarballs (gz, bz2 and xz). -Check if the pear files are updated (phar). + Check if the pear files are updated (phar). + On some systems the behavior of GNU tar can default to produce POSIX complaint archives +with PAX headers. As not every application is compatible with that format, creation of +archives with PAX headers should be avoided. When packaging on such a system, the GNU tar +can be influenced by defining the environment variable TAR_OPTIONS='--format=gnu'. 10. Generate the GPG signature files for the archives. ``gpg -u YOUREMAIL --armor --detach-sign php-X.Y.Z.tar.xxx`` |