[OE-core] busybox issue in latest dizzy

Andre McCurdy armccurdy at gmail.com
Wed Apr 1 18:27:10 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 5:32 AM, Matt Madison <matt at madison.systems> wrote:
> I updated to the latest on dizzy and ran into an issue with busybox's
> modutils commands failing, complaining about "no gzip/bzip2/xz magic".
> I've tracked it down to this patch committed (cd20b3c) on the 21st:
>
> busybox: libarchive: open_zipped() does not need to check extensions
> Backport from busybox 1_22_stable branch:

Thanks for testing and reporting this.

> I found a thread about this issue on the busybox mailing list archive,
> and applied the patch in this message
>
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2014-January/080389.html
>
> which appears to have fixed the issue.  I can submit the patch, if this
> isn't already being worked on.

Rather than take the risk that this might not be the final fix,
perhaps the safest approach is just to revert the offending patch from
dizzy?

> Thanks,
> -Matt
>



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