Bug#970323: dpkg-deb fails to create package > 2 GB

2020-09-15 Thread Francois Gouget
On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, Guillem Jover wrote: [...] > From the error message printed, it looks like your temporary directory > is not big enough. If you set TMPDIR to something else it should work > I guess? Argh! That's it. Sorry for missing it. The bug can be closed then. -- Francois Gouget

Bug#970323: dpkg-deb fails to create package > 2 GB

2020-09-14 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 18:52:57 +0200, Francois Gouget wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.7 > Severity: normal > dpkg-deb fails to create a package with a size greater than 2 GB. > To reproduce this issue use the attached file to create a 2.4 GB > package, this despite being on a 64-bit

Bug#970323: dpkg-deb fails to create package > 2 GB

2020-09-14 Thread Francois Gouget
Package: dpkg Version: 1.19.7 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, dpkg-deb fails to create a package with a size greater than 2 GB. To reproduce this issue use the attached file to create a 2.4 GB package, this despite being on a 64-bit system: $ tar xfz testpkg.tar.gz $ cd testpkg $ fakeroot