Created attachment 7561 [details] BusyBox .config With BusyBox 1.28.3, if I attempt to install a Debian package with dpkg that contains symbolic links in data.tar.gz, they are not extracted. Doesn't matter whether the links are relative or absolute. If I manually extract data.tar.gz with ar and then unpack it with tar xzf, the symbolic links are created properly. This is an absolute show stopper for me, as I am creating custom packages of third party software (such as Mono) that contain symbolic links.
Does this patch fix it? --- a/archival/libarchive/get_header_ar.c +++ b/archival/libarchive/get_header_ar.c @@ -127,8 +127,10 @@ char FAST_FUNC get_header_ar(archive_handle_t *archive_handle) archive_handle->action_header(typed); #if ENABLE_DPKG || ENABLE_DPKG_DEB if (archive_handle->dpkg__sub_archive) { - while (archive_handle->dpkg__action_data_subarchive(archive_handle->dpkg__sub_archive) == EXIT_SUCCESS) + struct archive_handle_t *sa = archive_handle->dpkg__sub_archive; + while (archive_handle->dpkg__action_data_subarchive(sa) == EXIT_SUCCESS) continue; + create_symlinks_from_list(sa->symlink_placeholders); } else #endif archive_handle->action_data(archive_handle);
Yes, that seems to fix it.
Fixed in git