list failed in linux ( Deserialization failed)

[Lambourl]

I have a pack that was created on windows, I wanted to check its content on my Ubuntu 20.04.
If I list I found my pack,

PACK                                                                       SNAPSHOTS SIZE     
loose/ba54343841542c1964b6b4064dc19982861fb310                             1         -        
windowspack                             1         0.057MiB 

But if I want to list all snapshot I have :

./elfshaker list windowspack

But I get this error :

[ERROR (main) 5.469347ms]: *FATAL*: Deserialization failed, corrupt pack index: cannot deserialize Windows OS string on Unix

An idea to succeed in using a windows pack on linux ?

[peterwaller-arm]

Because paths are represented differently on Windows and Linux, packs are not currently portable. We could theoretically support this (with limitations) with some effort. What is your use case? Our primary usecase is for binaries, which are not portable across operating systems anyway, so this limitation did not seem like a significant issue when we introduced it, but it sounds like something we may want to relax if this is important to you.

[Lambourl]

So my case is perhaps particular.
I use elfshaker to transport binaries from one Os to another. Without necessarily using them.

Let's take the case of my windows vm, I compile on it and I recover the binaries on linux, then I reuse them on my vm next time.

But I just wanted to check the presence of binaries in the pack from my linux, simple control

[peterwaller-arm]

Sorry about the limitation. I can't promise a fix on any timescale, which might rule out elfshaker for your usecase for now. If anyone fancies trying to fix this, help would be appreciated.