[pkg-fso-maint] [BUG?] Busybox ar exits with code 1 if FILES already exist

[Steffen Moeller]

Hi Luca,

I need to rush (1min) for my train. Please be so kind to check if the very latest
install.sh does fix the issues. I could not test it.

Kind regards,

Steffen

Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> Cc:ing the pkg-fso-maint@ mailing list for information, please continue
> the discussion on the smartphones-userland@ one, I set R-T and M-F-T
> accordingly, TIA.
> 
> Another error I experienced while re-installing Debian on my FR [1] is
> linked to busybox ar:
> =====
> om-gta02:~# time ./install.sh all
> [...]
> 
> W: tar does not support gzip archives
> Downloading tar package
> tar.deb              100% [...]   772k 00:00:00 ETA
> ar: can't open 'data.tar.gz': File exists
>  * network running
> I: System setup looks good
> Fetching time from ntp.fu-berlin.de with rdate
> I: Time is now Wed Mar 18 21:24:27 CET 2009
> [...]
> =====
> 
> It seems that busybox and GNU ar work differently if the files to be
> extracted already exist: busybox ar will exit with code 1, while GNU ar
> just rewrite them.
> 
> Is this a busybox bug?  Unfortunately, Debian busybox does not provide
> ar, so I cannot test with previous busybox versions.
> 
> For the pkg-fso-maint@ people: since ar exits with code 1, the
> install.sh script should exit as well, independently of the problem I
> just described above.
> 
> Thx, bye,
> Gismo / Luca
> 
> Footnotes: 
> [1] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/smartphones-userland/2009-March/001333.html
> 
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