Re: install/39894: Boot floppies no longer boot in -current

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/39894; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
Subject: Re: install/39894: Boot floppies no longer boot in -current
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:02 +0900

 gson%gson.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > I suspect the problem may be caused by the fact that the first file in
 > the tar archive contained on the floppy is now "." rather than "boot".
 
 FS_OPS(ustarfs) can't open files (boot.cfg in that case)
 because files are stored with "./" prefix added by specfile:
 
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 % dd if=netbsd-5/boot-big.fs bs=8k skip=1 | tar tvf -
 -r--r--r--  1 10000    125        60500 Nov  4 18:06 boot
 -rw-r--r--  1 10000    125          466 Nov  4 18:06 boot.cfg
 -rw-r--r--  1 10000    125            0 Nov  4 18:06 USTAR.volsize.16040
 -rw-r--r--  1 10000    125      2809650 Nov  4 18:07 netbsd
 tar: ustar vol 1, 4 files, 2875392 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs 
(2875392 bytes/sec)
 449+0 records in
 449+0 records out
 3678208 bytes transferred in 0.017 secs (216365176 bytes/sec)
 % dd if=HEAD/boot-big.fs bs=8k skip=1 | tar tvf -
 drwxr-xr-x  2 root     wheel          0 Nov 10 08:51 .
 -r--r--r--  1 root     wheel      60500 Nov 10 08:51 ./boot
 -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel        466 Nov 10 08:51 ./boot.cfg
 -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel          0 Nov 10 08:51 ./USTAR.volsize.16040
 -rw-r--r--  1 root     wheel    2819013 Nov 10 08:51 ./netbsd
 449+0 records in
 449+0 records out
 tar: ustar vol 1, 5 files, 2883584 bytes read, 0 bytes written in 1 secs 
(2883584 bytes/sec)
 3678208 bytes transferred in 0.014 secs (262729142 bytes/sec)
 % 
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 No idea how to specify uid/gid without such prefix.
 
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 Izumi Tsutsui