Bug#806936: /usr/share/debootstrap/functions: use tar -h in extract_dpkg_deb_data
Package: debootstrap
Version: 1.0.75
Severity: normal
File: /usr/share/debootstrap/functions
Hi,
dpkg behavior is to preserve as hard as it can the current layout of the
filesystem wrt. symlink to directories: it will try not to replace a
symlink by a folder or even the opposite.
In debootstrap early stages, dpkg is not used (because not yet installed
in the target), but a custom implementatin using dpkg-deb|tar or ar is
used. Unfortunately, this implementation doesn't follow dpkg behavior,
and will happily replace a symlink by a dir.
I'm using debootstrap in a custom way where I need to create some
symlinks beforehand (for example some multiarches dirs like lib -> lib64
in / and /usr), it works fine with dpkg, but not with debootstrap early
extract.
Would it be possible to replace the tar call in extract_dpkg_deb_data
with tar -hxf so it will follow symlinks instead of replacing them?
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (450, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages debootstrap depends on:
ii wget 1.17-1
Versions of packages debootstrap recommends:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2014.3
ii gnupg 1.4.19-6
debootstrap suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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