Control: reassign 791535 dpkg-dev Control: forcemerge 790073 791535 Hi!
On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 20:49:52 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 15:55:49 -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > > Package: dpkg-dev > > Version: 1.18.1 > > Severity: important > > When unpacking a .debian tarball, dpkg-source explicitly excludes any > > files that were already in the corresponding .orig tarball, which in > > some cases can yield excessively long command lines. In particular, > > this approach makes it impossible to unpack emoslib on kFreeBSD: > > > > dpkg-source: info: unpacking emoslib_4.0.3+dfsg.1.orig.tar.xz > > dpkg-source: info: unpacking emoslib_4.0.3+dfsg.1-1.debian.tar.xz > > Can't exec "tar": Argument list too long at /usr/share/perl5/Dpkg/IPC.pm > > line 308. > > dpkg-source: error: unable to execute tar --no-same-owner > > --no-same-permissions --anchored --no-wildcards --exclude > > land_sea_mask/r160_xx_19790930 ... --exclude > > bufrtables/C0000000000149010001.TXT -xf - gave error exit status 7 > > FAILED [dpkg-source died] > > > > The full command line it tries to run here is over 327,000 bytes long, > > so I can see how some kernels could reasonably reject it. If > > dpkg-source truly needs to pass an explicit list, I would suggest > > using tar's --exclude-from=... option. Otherwise, I believe it would > > suffice to use --skip-old-files, or, if you want to treat overlaps as > > errors, --keep-old-files (-k). > > > > Could you please take a look? > > Yes, I did, and I think it might actually be enough to stop adding all > those --exclude for pre-existing symlinks, as tar should replace them > with actual directories (at least according to tar docs, and for a > very long time), but I've not yet tested if that really holds true. > > Otherwise I think only --exclude-from= would be an appropriate > replacement, although it would require a temp file. I've just checked this now, and tar behaves properly, so I've removed that code, and this should stop being an issue with dpkg 1.18.2. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
