On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:20:24PM +0100, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> just as an exercise what might be done to fix this:
> It would seem that the options are
> - find something in current tar that works (I didn't),
There is nothing.
> - switch off tar,
I intend to replace tar with a custom unpack routine in cdebootstrap.
> - try to do something with tar
> (new upstream - vs. release: ugh - has a "apply to symlink target"
> --transform flag, but that also might need post-processing of
> symlinks at end of bootstrapping),
What would dpkg do with the symlinks in the the unpack phase?
> - try to do some ld-preload(?) trickery for changing the way symlinks
> are read,
fakechroot have to do this someway, but I was unable to grok that code
yet.
> - try to find some way to chroot before calling tar, one possibility
> would be copying required files to some temp CWD, make tar look there
> for the libraries, chrooting to the target and calling tar from (the
> unchanged) CWD,
Rather hacky. Would mean to include mklibs-copy or similar
functionality.
> - add chroot option to tar (see patch).
This is a root only option.
Bastian
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