[ovs-dev] [PATCH] configure.ac: Enable 'tar-ustar' by default

[Finucane, Stephen]

> I dont remember the automake version I first encountered that, it was on
> another project which had already been using ustar for several years but
> then at some point during 2013 it started whining about large UIDs.

Assuming said project was open source, how did they go about achieving this: the same way or in a different manner? It would help to ensure this is (thus far) the best/only approach to this issue.