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
