On 2009-02-06 09:57:36.00 Raphael Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> wrote: > On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Thomas Viehmann wrote: > > > What would dpkg do with the symlinks in the the unpack phase? > > > > I have not tested it, but I would venture the same thing (calling tar, > > ergo having the same problem) from when I last looked at it. > > dpkg does not call tar, it has it own tar implementation (which explains > why we don't support yet POSIX tar archives inside .deb). I'm not sure how > it behaves in the situation that matters for this bug. > > Try it with dpkg --root=/target/dir/ …
Thanks for stepping in to correct me here. dpkg does have its own tar, only dpkg-deb calls tar. > Try it with dpkg --root=/target/dir/ … >From looking at the code, it does the right thing. Kind regards T. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
