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Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2 1/2] BootLinuxConsoleTest: Let extract_from_deb
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Cleber Rosa |
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Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH v2 1/2] BootLinuxConsoleTest: Let extract_from_deb handle various compressions |
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Tue, 12 Mar 2019 20:05:36 -0400 |
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On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:45:40AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Debian binary package format supports various compressions.
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> Per man deb(5):
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> NAME
> deb - Debian binary package format
>
> FORMAT
> ...
> The third, last required member is named data.tar. It contains the
> filesystem as a tar archive, either not compressed (supported since
> dpkg 1.10.24), or compressed with gzip (with .gz extension),
> xz (with .xz extension, supported since dpkg 1.15.6),
> bzip2 (with .bz2 extension, supported since dpkg 1.10.24) or
> lzma (with .lzma extension, supported since dpkg 1.13.25).
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> List the archive files to have the 3rd name with the correct extension.
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> The function avocado.utils.archive.extract() will handle the different
> compression format for us.
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> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
Reviewed-by: Cleber Rosa <address@hidden>