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 la...@debian.org 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

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 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

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
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

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 myself