Hi! On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:22:52 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:37:56PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus.. > > Note that debootstrap does not support data.tar.bz2. > > debootstrap-1.0.20/functions: extract > > progress "$p" "$#" EXTRACTPKGS "Extracting packages" > packagename="$(echo "$pkg" | sed 's,^.*/,,;s,_.*$,,')" > info EXTRACTING "Extracting %s..." "$packagename" > ar -p "./$pkg" data.tar.gz | zcat | tar -xf -
This has been fixed now in debootstrap's svn. I've also sent now a set of patches to use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available. > deb-gview is also affected by this but I haven't had any bug reports. > Fairly easy to fix that in deb-gview though due to the use of > libarchive. > > multistrap will also be affected. Well, IMO any program implementing .deb extraction w/o using something like --fsys-tarfile, --extract or --control from dpkg-deb (until we have the upcoming libdpkg...), should be prepared to handle the format described in deb(5), and deserves a bug otherwise. The fact that the Debian archive only accepts a subset of the valid .deb format, or that we might not want to have bzip2 compressed packages in the base system is a matter of policy in Debian, and does not mean others might want to do otherwise. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
