On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:01:06 +0100 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 22:22:52 +0000, Neil Williams wrote: > > On Sun, 15, Nov, 2009 at 02:37:56PM -0500, Joey Hess spoke thus.. > > > Note that debootstrap does not support data.tar.bz2. > > ar -p "./$pkg" data.tar.gz | zcat | tar -xf - > > This has been fixed now in debootstrap's svn. I've also sent now a set > of patches to use dpkg-deb instead of ar when available. > > > deb-gview is also affected by this but I haven't had any bug reports. > > Fairly easy to fix that in deb-gview though due to the use of > > libarchive. > > > > multistrap will also be affected. > Well, IMO any program implementing .deb extraction w/o using something > like --fsys-tarfile, --extract or --control from dpkg-deb (until we > have the upcoming libdpkg...), should be prepared to handle the format > described in deb(5), and deserves a bug otherwise. The fact that the > Debian archive only accepts a subset of the valid .deb format, or that > we might not want to have bzip2 compressed packages in the base system > is a matter of policy in Debian, and does not mean others might want to > do otherwise. Fixed in multistrap 2.0.4, just arriving in sid. I'll update deb-gview for its next release, although I'll need some real packages using data.tar.bz2 before I can test it. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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