Hi! On Mon, 2012-06-25 at 14:55:58 +0800, Qingsheng wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.15.5.6ubuntu4.5 > Severity: important > > When deal with large pacakge(>10G Bytes), dpkg-deb/dpkg with a > 'bad magic at end of first header' error when using 'dpkg-deb -e' > to extract the package. > > Say if use 'dpkg-deb -b' to build a large package(>10G Bytes), it > is ok. but if 'dpkg-deb -e' to extract the package, error will > happenned.
> Is there any size limitation for dpkg/dpkg-deb tools? Yes the common ar format allows only for approx 9536.74 MiB member files, so if your data.tar.gz file member is bigger than that it will not be storable there. You could try using a different compression though (if you are using gz that is), like xz. But dpkg-deb should handled that more gracefully, I'll fix this in my next push. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
