Bug#514016: options for fixing
On 2009-02-06 09:57:36.00 Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 05 Feb 2009, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > > What would dpkg do with the symlinks in the the unpack phase?
> >
> > I have not tested it, but I would venture the same thing (calling tar,
> > ergo having the same problem) from when I last looked at it.
>
> dpkg does not call tar, it has it own tar implementation (which explains
> why we don't support yet POSIX tar archives inside .deb). I'm not sure how
> it behaves in the situation that matters for this bug.
>
> Try it with dpkg --root=/target/dir/ …
Thanks for stepping in to correct me here. dpkg does have its own tar, only dpkg-deb calls tar.
> Try it with dpkg --root=/target/dir/ …
>From looking at the code, it does the right thing.
Kind regards
T.
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