* pkg/unpkg strangeness
@ 2015-05-11 20:28 sl
2015-05-11 21:17 ` [9front] " Iruatã Souza
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From: sl @ 2015-05-11 20:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
Someone mailed me pointing out that the old equis package aborts
during installation. I was able to reproduce. On a 386/9pcf system:
; pkg/install equis-2012.01.11
-- snip --
A ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
pkg/unpkg: 'ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh' mounted directory forbids creation
I manually unpacked equis-2012.01.11.tbz and found this:
; ls
386
sys
; du -a * | sed 's/^.* //g' | grep ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
sys/src/pkg/equis-2012.01.11/cmd/X/hw/xprint/config/C/print/models/PS2PDFspooldir-GS/ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
Makes no sense. The tarball is supposed to just unpack over /. As you
can see, nothing should get created directly in / (/386 and /sys already
exist on every system). pkg/unpkg must be doing something strange.
I do think we saw this before and I forgot to investigate.
Why is this happening?
sl
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* Re: [9front] pkg/unpkg strangeness
2015-05-11 20:28 pkg/unpkg strangeness sl
@ 2015-05-11 21:17 ` Iruatã Souza
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From: Iruatã Souza @ 2015-05-11 21:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9front
According to tar(1):
File path names are limited to 100 characters (256 when
using ustar format).
Every file that has a path bigger than that leads to pkg/unpkg trying
to unpack the file into /.
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:28 PM, <sl@9front.org> wrote:
> Someone mailed me pointing out that the old equis package aborts
> during installation. I was able to reproduce. On a 386/9pcf system:
>
> ; pkg/install equis-2012.01.11
>
> -- snip --
>
> A ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
> pkg/unpkg: 'ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh' mounted directory forbids creation
>
>
> I manually unpacked equis-2012.01.11.tbz and found this:
>
> ; ls
> 386
> sys
> ; du -a * | sed 's/^.* //g' | grep ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
> sys/src/pkg/equis-2012.01.11/cmd/X/hw/xprint/config/C/print/models/PS2PDFspooldir-GS/ps2pdf_spooltodir.sh
>
> Makes no sense. The tarball is supposed to just unpack over /. As you
> can see, nothing should get created directly in / (/386 and /sys already
> exist on every system). pkg/unpkg must be doing something strange.
>
> I do think we saw this before and I forgot to investigate.
>
> Why is this happening?
>
> sl
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