Your message dated Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:25:52 -0400 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has caused the Debian Bug report #358990, regarding cpio -o -H ustar may create malformed archive, data dependent to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software author(s) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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--- Begin Message ---> This bug was created by one of the debian changes (ie a change > in cpio_2.6-11.diff.gz). The attached patch fixes it. Patch with offsets changed: --- cpio-2.7.orig/src/copyout.c +++ cpio-2.7/src/copyout.c @@ -780,8 +780,9 @@ file_hdr.c_mode = (file_stat.st_mode & 07777); file_hdr.c_mode |= CP_IFREG; file_hdr.c_tar_linkname = otherfile; - if (write_out_header (&file_hdr, out_file_des)) - continue; + file_hdr.c_filesize = 0; + write_out_header (&file_hdr, out_file_des); + continue; break; } add_inode (file_hdr.c_ino, orig_file_name,
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