[OE-core] busybox issue in latest dizzy

Matt Madison matt at madison.systems
Wed Apr 1 19:49:40 UTC 2015


On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Andre McCurdy <armccurdy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?

That's fine with me, too.

Thanks,
-Matt


>
>> Thanks,
>> -Matt
>>



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