On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 16:38:49 +0800, He, Qingsheng 2 wrote: > > You could try using a different compression though > > (if you are using gz that is), like xz. > > How to specify the different compression, I find 'dpkg-deb -Z' could > specifiy the compression type, but only gzip, bzip, lzma could be > choosen. How to use xz？
You need at least dpkg 1.15.6. If you cannot upgrade then try either bzip2 or lzma (although compressing with the latter is deprecated with new dpkg versions, but not decompressing which will be supported for the forseable future). > > But dpkg-deb should handled that more gracefully, I'll fix this in my > > next push. > > Do you have a schedule for your fix? > After your push, dpkg-deb could build/extract the package which have > size more than 9536.74 MiB? Then is threre any new size limitation > after your push? This will be included for the upcoming 1.16.5 targetting Debian unstable, and will only catch truncation problems for now, in other words, it will not allow you to create broken packages. Adding support for larger packages is something that would need more work and careful consideration which I'll be looking at for 1.17.x. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
