Re: [Zutils-bug] zcat: misses -t option

[Antonio Diaz Diaz]

Daniel Baumann wrote:
> On 07/26/2018 06:53 PM, Antonio Diaz Diaz wrote:
> > The problem, IMO, is in the xcpio() function of unmkinitramfs. It should
> > use 'gzip -t' instead of 'zcat -t', just as it already uses 'bzip2 -t'
> > and 'lzop -t'. Think that posix zcat does not document a -t option[3]
> > and therefore 'zcat -t' is not a portable way to check file integrity.
>
> indeed, thank you for your help. I've commented and reassigned the bug
> accordingly.

Thank you. I have sent a trivial patch to http://bugs.debian.org/903931 
replacing also xzcat, as advised in the xz man page.


Best regards,
Antonio.