Hi Trent, Quoting Trent W. Buck (2019-10-16 10:58:15) > tar2sqfs exists in squashfs-tools-ng. > I haven't gotten it working with mmdebstrap yet, but > this (below) is enough to show that the approach is sound. > Further work can happen in squashfs-land, not mmdebstrap-land. > > [snip awesome research] > > tar2sqfs can definitely see the files in the tar, because it prints their > names to stderr as they go past.
maybe this is because mmdebstrap is doing something wrong with the device nodes? Maybe comment out that mmdebstrap prepends a tarball with /dev in front of the actual file content and see if it works then? > When I have more time, I'll try to debug this further. Awesome!! Feel free to keep me posted. :) cheers, josch
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