Bug#466048: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

2008-02-17 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2008-02-16 at 09:39 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > > (3) offer an option to have piuparts itself create a tarball that it > > > actually wants to see > > > > It already does: see the -s option. > > It would be great to ac

Bug#466048: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

2008-02-16 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:16:09AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > (3) offer an option to have piuparts itself create a tarball that it > > actually wants to see > > It already does: see the -s option. It would be great to actually find that option when grepping the man page for tar - it is

Bug#466048: [Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

2008-02-16 Thread Lars Wirzenius
package piuparts tag 446048 pending thanks On la, 2008-02-16 at 08:57 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > Please > (1) document that the tarball needs to have the chroot directly at its > base Where else would it be? It's the contents of the chroot, so the root directory of the chroot needs to be the

Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

2008-02-16 Thread Marc Haber
Package: piuparts Version: 0.30 Severity: wishlist Hi, piuparts fails with an obscure error message if the tarball handed in with -b has the chroot in a subdirectory instead of directly at the tarball's base. Please (1) document that the tarball needs to have the chroot directly at its base