On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:38:51PM -0200, Otavio Salvador wrote: > Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> What packages in the base system are trying to use data.tar.bz2 at the > >> moment? > > > > None, but aj noted that both debootstrap and cdebootstrap fail to > > unpack packages using bzip2. As dak accepts data.tar.bz2 now, > > bootstrapping could be broken by such an upload to base. This either > > needs to be fixed on the dak or on the debootstrap side - I for one > > would prefer allowing it everywhere, if possible. > > Yes. It makes sense. > > Personally, I'd like to know what is the increase on space and memory > for adding bzcat on busybox-udeb. However, as said in another mail, I > see no point to support different set of features on installed and d-i > environments (from debootstrap POV).
One worthwhile reason why one might want to implement this in debootstrap without allowing it in priority required/important packages is that debootstrap is also used outside d-i for buildd chroots, and this would permit large build-essential packages to have their data.tar elements compressed using bzip2. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
