Bug#652946: busybox tar fails to copy filesystem.squashfs

2012-07-11 Thread Rui Bernardo
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 06:38:57AM +0100, Rui Bernardo wrote: I was going to prepare another patch but I hold myself this time... I've searched what was creating those directories in the /target/. Turns out to be /lib/partman/finish.d/20mount_partitions from partman-target [1]. That code

Bug#652946: busybox tar fails to copy filesystem.squashfs

2012-07-09 Thread Rui Bernardo
Today I've gave another try and this is still happening with today's sid build. Following your hint that this is busybox related I've tried to find how far back this issue was happening using a patched live-build to use snapshots.debian.org. From the available daily installers this bug is

Bug#652946: busybox tar fails to copy filesystem.squashfs

2012-07-09 Thread Michael Tokarev
Um. This is just insane. The bug is filed 22-Dec 2011, today is 09-Jul 2012, you have the actual cause, and it is still open, and the maintainers of suspected package (busybox) knows nothing about it... :( Okay. Rui, you found the root cause of this issue, it is there:

Bug#652946: busybox tar fails to copy filesystem.squashfs

2012-07-09 Thread Rui Bernardo
Hi Michael, On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 11:11:24PM +0400, Michael Tokarev wrote: Um. This is just insane. The bug is filed 22-Dec 2011, today is 09-Jul 2012, you have the actual cause, and it is still open, and the maintainers of suspected package (busybox) knows nothing about it... :( I think

Bug#652946: busybox tar fails to copy filesystem.squashfs

2012-07-09 Thread Rui Bernardo
I was going to prepare another patch but I hold myself this time... I've searched what was creating those directories in the /target/. Turns out to be /lib/partman/finish.d/20mount_partitions from partman-target [1]. That code isn't touched since 2007 and creates the var/run and var/lock