quotes ridiculous large sizes

[Martin Pool]

Binary package hint: pax

> pax: ustar vol 1, 747 files, 919543564541624320 bytes read, 578133281422478456 bytes written.

My laptop doesn't actually have 500PB of disk. It wrote 109MB.

The command was

find ~ \( \
    -path ~/backup \
    -o -path ~/.cache \
    \) -prune -o \
    -readable -type f -newer $timestamp -print0 |
pax -w0vzf ~/backup/lithe-home-`date -Imin`.tgz

and the output file produced looks reasonable.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: pax 1:20090728-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 13 16:46:53 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: pax

[Dave Rolsky (autarch)]

This is actually a somewhat serious bug. It seems that amavis uses pax to determine the file size of some attachments. When pax reports ridiculously large sizes amavis won't scan the file.

[Thorsten Glaser (mirabilos)]

Should be fixed with the Ubuntu sync of 1:20120216-1