Joey Hess wrote: > Removing the 'chroot .' should be all that's necessary, plus testing of > course.
You need to remove the "--exclude=target" bit too, as that's not supported
in busybox tar. (This was only a paranoid measure anyway.)
Patch attached for clarity. Tested using d-i daily i386 build.
Regards,
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From 9446c0fcb7fbcccad7b02c9b9b45eb3c60b924c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org>
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 00:55:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] busybox-udeb now supports tar creation, so don't use tar from the live system. (Closes: #527306)
---
packages/live-installer/debian/changelog | 7 +++++++
packages/live-installer/debian/postinst | 9 +--------
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/packages/live-installer/debian/changelog b/packages/live-installer/debian/changelog
index a8898f5..69918d2 100644
--- a/packages/live-installer/debian/changelog
+++ b/packages/live-installer/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+live-installer (9) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+
+ * busybox-udeb now supports tar creation, so don't use tar from the live
+ system. (Closes: #527306)
+
+ -- Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> Mon, 11 May 2009 00:12:50 +0100
+
live-installer (8) unstable; urgency=low
[ Updated translations ]
diff --git a/packages/live-installer/debian/postinst b/packages/live-installer/debian/postinst
index e1eab1b..bbcb2c4 100755
--- a/packages/live-installer/debian/postinst
+++ b/packages/live-installer/debian/postinst
@@ -40,15 +40,8 @@ install_live_system () {
COUNT=0
OLD_IFS=$IFS
mkdir -p /target
- # use tar from inside the live filesystem to create
- # the tarball, because busybox tar in d-i does not
- # support creating tarballs.
- #
- # The --exclude is a paranoia measure, in case this program
- # is running from the toplevel of a live filesystem,
- # which is not normally the case.
exec 4>&0
- chroot . tar c . --exclude=target | \
+ tar c . | \
(chdir /target && tar xv) | \
(
while read line; do
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