Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-11 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Chris, On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Chris Lamb wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > >> Removing the 'chroot .' should be all that's necessary, plus testing of >> course. > > You need to remove the "--exclude=target" bit too, as that's not supported > in busybox tar. (This was only a paranoid mea

Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-10 Thread Chris Lamb
Joey Hess wrote: > Removing the 'chroot .' should be all that's necessary, plus testing of > course. You need to remove the "--exclude=target" bit too, as that's not supported in busybox tar. (This was only a paranoid measure anyway.) Patch attached for clarity. Tested using d-i daily i386 build

Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-07 Thread Daniel Baumann
Joey Hess wrote: > chroot . tar c . --exclude=target | \ > (chdir /target && tar xv) | \ > > Removing the 'chroot .' should be all that's necessary, plus testing of > course. very nice. i'll test it tomorrow. -- Address:Daniel Baumann, Burgunderstrasse 3,

Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Christian Perrier wrote: > Hey Joey, are you aware of other places we could also change the use > of tar (certainly I can look by myself but I'm first trying to use > your great memory of historical stuff in D-I..:-)) TTBOMK, this is the only place in d-i where we *create* a tar file, and so the o

Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-06 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess (jo...@debian.org): > Package: live-installer > Severity: normal > > busybox-udeb now supports tar creation, so this code can be fixed to > not use tar from the live system: Hey Joey, are you aware of other places we could also change the use of tar (certainly I can look by mys

Bug#527306: use busybox tar, not tar from live system

2009-05-06 Thread Joey Hess
Package: live-installer Severity: normal busybox-udeb now supports tar creation, so this code can be fixed to not use tar from the live system: # use tar from inside the live filesystem to create # the tarball, because busybox tar in d-i does not #