Bug#233294: installation report - tar: Unrecognised file type

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 10:54:43PM -0800, Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:23:50PM +1100, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:51:59 -0500
> > George Kumengi <George.Kumengi@grc.nasa.gov> wrote:
> > 
> > > Everything works fine until I get a "Base system installation error""
> > > debootstrap program exited with an error (return value 1)
> > > 
> > > Virtual Console 3 says:
> > > tar: Unrecognised file type
> > 
> > The error means busybox doesnt know if the file being extracted is a
> > regular file or directory or symlink etc, which is very strange, ive not
> > seen the error triggered before (and i wrote the code).
> > 
> > I would really like to know what triggered it. Any idea which debian
> > package
> > or tarfile it was trying to extract ?
> 
> I don't know which package is at fault, but it sounds like fallout
> from bug 230872.

I see this too, furthermore, i seem to be no more given the choice of
installing testing or unstable.

Anyway, i just wanted to say that it would be very helpfull if the
debootstrap failure message would include also a mention to the package
which triggered the failure.

Friendly,

Sven Luther