Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.1 Severity: important When unpacking a .debian tarball, dpkg-source explicitly excludes any files that were already in the corresponding .orig tarball, which in some cases can yield excessively long command lines. In particular, this approach makes it impossible to unpack emoslib on kFreeBSD:
dpkg-source: info: unpacking emoslib_4.0.3+dfsg.1.orig.tar.xz dpkg-source: info: unpacking emoslib_4.0.3+dfsg.1-1.debian.tar.xz Can't exec "tar": Argument list too long at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/IPC.pm line 308. dpkg-source: error: unable to execute tar --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions --anchored --no-wildcards --exclude land_sea_mask/r160_xx_19790930 ... --exclude bufrtables/C0000000000149010001.TXT -xf - gave error exit status 7 FAILED [dpkg-source died] The full command line it tries to run here is over 327,000 bytes long, so I can see how some kernels could reasonably reject it. If dpkg-source truly needs to pass an explicit list, I would suggest using tar's --exclude-from=... option. Otherwise, I believe it would suffice to use --skip-old-files, or, if you want to treat overlaps as errors, --keep-old-files (-k). Could you please take a look? FTR, you can find the log I quoted at https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=emoslib&arch=kfreebsd-amd64&ver=2%3A4.0.3%2Bdfsg.1-1&stamp=1435345520 Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
