Package: cpio
Version: 2.7-1
Severity: serious
Tags: patch
Justification: no longer builds from source
Versions = 2.8 of cpio fails to build on ARM due to a testsuite
failure, but the bug is already present in version 2.7.
cpio uses structures to map the file header, and the whole structure is
This one time, at band camp, Aurelien Jarno said:
cpio uses structures to map the file header, and the whole structure is
read at once. This does not work on all architectures (like ARM), as
they may use padding. The structures should be declared as packed to
avoid padding.
You will find
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:31:49PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
(disclaimer: not related to cpio in any way)
This patch certainly looks good enough to be a dpatch or whatever system
is in use, but I just wanted to mention that before pushing this
upstream, you might want to add tests for how
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