Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

2009-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > How will debootstrap react when the decompressors are not available? > > It is going to output an error ... "File not found!" :-) IMHO it should at the very least test if the decompressor is available [1] and output a more meaningful message

Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

2009-11-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Frans Pop wrote: > On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: >> > This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz. >> >> I've commited your patch in SVN; even though it is not yet clear that >> .bz2

Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

2009-11-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 16 November 2009, Otavio Salvador wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > > This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz. > > I've commited your patch in SVN; even though it is not yet clear that > .bz2 data.tar are going to be accepted for base packages I see

Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

2009-11-16 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Clint, On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Clint Adams wrote: > This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz. I've commited your patch in SVN; even though it is not yet clear that .bz2 data.tar are going to be accepted for base packages I see now reason to now support it in debootstrap le

Bug#458663: gz/bz2/xz for debootstrap data.tar

2009-11-16 Thread Clint Adams
This anticipates the eventuality of data.tar.xz. --- functions.orig 2009-11-16 08:41:11.094921291 -0500 +++ functions 2009-11-16 08:48:13.883895352 -0500 @@ -719,13 +719,19 @@ extract () { ( cd "$TARGET" - local p=0 + local p=0 tarball for pkg in $(debfor "$@"