The only format supported from the ones available within cpack is
gnutar, which supports large numbers encoded in base-256, and long
filenames and linknames. PAX is not and has never been a supported
format by dpkg.
Fixes: #18620
CPack generator names were not used consistently
throughout the documentation, resulting in ambiguity
about what the correct name was for use with the
`cpack -G` option. With the changes in this commit, the
cpack-generators(7) page of the manual now shows the
correct names and other help pages no longer use
inconsistent or incorrect names.
The documentation for CPack generators previously lived in their
respective internal CMake modules. This setup was misleading,
because it implied that you should include the modules in your own
code, which is not the case. Moving the documentation into a
separate section does a better job of hiding the internal modules,
which are just an implementation detail. The generator documentation
has also been modified to remove any references to the module name.
The CPackIFW module is a special exception: since it has user-facing
macros, the documentation for these macros has been kept in the module
page, while all other documentation related to the IFW generator has
been moved into the new section.
To make it easier to find the new documentation, the old help pages
for the CPack*.cmake modules have not been deleted, but have been
replaced with a link to their respective help page in the new
documentation section.
Alex Turbov
Guillem Jover
Brad King
Craig Scott
Andrew Fuller
Kyle Edwards