[devscripts] 01/01: Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)

[Ximin Luo]

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infinity0 pushed a commit to branch pu/mk-origtargz-argmax
in repository devscripts.

commit 3fa9a36bb4f352c07a3537cb597aaf734ce936f1
Author: Ximin Luo <infinity0 at debian.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 13 17:22:02 2018 +0100

    Allow more files to be deleted than can fit inside argv (`getconf ARG_MAX`)
---
 scripts/mk-origtargz.pl | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/mk-origtargz.pl b/scripts/mk-origtargz.pl
index 4299b93..4533899 100644
--- a/scripts/mk-origtargz.pl
+++ b/scripts/mk-origtargz.pl
@@ -571,11 +571,13 @@ if ($do_repack || $deletecount) {
     # We have to use piping because --delete is broken otherwise, as documented
     # at https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/manual/html_node/delete.html
     if (@to_delete) {
-	spawn(exec => ['tar', '--delete', @to_delete ],
-	      from_file => $destfiletar,
-	      to_file => $destfiletar . ".tmp",
-	      wait_child => 1) if scalar(@to_delete) > 0;
-	move ($destfiletar . ".tmp", $destfiletar);
+	while (my @next_n = splice @to_delete, 0, 16384) {
+	    spawn(exec => ['tar', '--delete', @next_n ],
+		  from_file => $destfiletar,
+		  to_file => $destfiletar . ".tmp",
+		  wait_child => 1) if scalar(@next_n) > 0;
+	    move ($destfiletar . ".tmp", $destfiletar);
+	}
     }
     compress_archive($destfiletar, $destfile, $compression);
 

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