Hi -
Like this?
(/usr/bin/dkpg-deb is the usual installation path)
diff --git a/debuginfod/ChangeLog b/debuginfod/ChangeLog
index 5e19db517472..58ba85cf3664 100644
--- a/debuginfod/ChangeLog
+++ b/debuginfod/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2020-03-26 Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com>
+
+ * debuginfod.cxx (parse_opt): For -U, prefer dpkg-deb
+ after all if access(3)-able, fallback to bsdtar.
+
2020-03-25 Frank Ch. Eigler <f...@redhat.com>
* debuginfod.cxx (parse_opt): Associate a bsdtar subshell with
diff --git a/debuginfod/debuginfod.cxx b/debuginfod/debuginfod.cxx
index c03bbf922f59..9e8d55609c56 100644
--- a/debuginfod/debuginfod.cxx
+++ b/debuginfod/debuginfod.cxx
@@ -429,8 +429,16 @@ parse_opt (int key, char *arg,
scan_archives[".rpm"]="cat"; // libarchive groks rpm natively
break;
case 'U':
- scan_archives[".deb"]="(bsdtar -O -x -f - data.tar.xz)<";
- scan_archives[".ddeb"]="(bsdtar -O -x -f - data.tar.xz)<";
+ if (access("/usr/bin/dpkg-deb", X_OK) == 0)
+ {
+ scan_archives[".deb"]="dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile";
+ scan_archives[".ddeb"]="dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile";
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ scan_archives[".deb"]="(bsdtar -O -x -f - data.tar.xz)<";
+ scan_archives[".ddeb"]="(bsdtar -O -x -f - data.tar.xz)<";
+ }
// .udeb too?
break;
case 'Z':
