Fix #1488 pass filenames to tar through stdin

avoids too-long command line

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/utils/tar.js b/lib/utils/tar.js
index 651d8fd3d..b730e3875 100644
--- a/lib/utils/tar.js
+++ b/lib/utils/tar.js
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ function packFiles (targetTarball, parent, files, pkg, cb) {
     })
     var target = fs.createWriteStream(targetTarball)
       , unPacked = false
-      , args = [ "-czvf", "-"].concat(files)
+      , args = [ "-czvf", "-", "-T", "-"]
       , tarEnv = {}
     for (var i in process.env) {
       tarEnv[i] = process.env[i]
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@ function packFiles (targetTarball, parent, files, pkg, cb) {
                    , args, tarEnv, false, parent)
       , errState
     tar.name = "tar -czvf - <file list elided>"
+    tar.stdin.write(files.join("\n"))
+    tar.stdin.end()
     tar.stdout.pipe(target)
     target.on("close", function (er, ok) {
       if (errState) return