[Piuparts-devel] Bug#466048: piuparts: please document tarball building

[Marc Haber]

Package: piuparts
Version: 0.30
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

piuparts fails with an obscure error message if the tarball handed in
with -b has the chroot in a subdirectory instead of directly at the
tarball's base.

Please
(1) document that the tarball needs to have the chroot directly at its
    base
(2) have piuparts handle tarballs with a subdirectory transparently or
(3) offer an option to have piuparts itself create a tarball that it
    actually wants to see

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-zgsrv (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages piuparts depends on:
ii  apt                        0.7.10        Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii  debootstrap                1.0.8         Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  lsb-release                3.1-24        Linux Standard Base version report
ii  lsof                       4.78.dfsg.1-4 List open files
ii  python                     2.4.4-6       An interactive high-level object-o
ii  python-debian              0.1.9         python modules to work with Debian

piuparts recommends no packages.

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