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With UserBuildConfig setup to unzip my files and settings to newer Haiku versions, I am finding that the build will not complete just before writing to the HD partition. I can make it complete if I comment out the Extract commands in UserBuildConfig. It was working before with a slightly different command: UnzipArchiveToHaikuImage but then at the start of each build it would complain that it did not understand that command. I looked in the sample UserBuildConfig and saw that the command had changed and also the way the folder chain was shown had changed, for the folder for unzipping from. There was now non relative path. I changed my UserBuildConfig and the build process was not complaining anymore, at the start of each build.
Here is my UserBuildConfig now:

# Optional package OpenSSH needs this variable set
HAIKU_IMAGE_HOST_NAME = "TEST" ;
 
# Add these optional packages
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages BeZillaBrowser ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages Beam ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages BeHappy ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages BePDF ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages NetSurf ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages OpenSSL ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages OpenSSH ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages Pe ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages Vision ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages Welcome ;
AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages WonderBrush ;
 
#ExtractArchiveToHaikuImage home config settings : /home/greg/develop/haiku/haiku/user_data/
#Directories_Files_From_Settings_Folder.zip ;
#ExtractArchiveToHaikuImage home : /home/greg/develop/haiku/haiku/user_data/Home_Folder_Directories.zip ;
#ExtractArchiveToHaikuImage home Desktop : /home/greg/develop/haiku/haiku/user_data/Baikonar_Astronaut_Launch.zip ;
 
DefineBuildProfile disk : disk : "/dev/sda4" ;
DefineBuildProfile vmware : vmware-image ;
 
switch $(HAIKU_BUILD_PROFILE) {
	case "disk" : {
		AddOptionalHaikuImagePackages Development ;
	}
 
 
	case "vmware" : {
		HAIKU_IMAGE_SIZE = 900 ;
	}
 
}

I have the ExtractArchive commands commented out now only to enable the build to complete.
The previous commands that worked and later stopped working was:

UnzipArchiveToHaikuImage home config settings 
 : $(HAIKU_TOP)/user_data/Directories_Files_From_Settings_Folder.zip ;
UnzipArchiveToHaikuImage home
 : $(HAIKU_TOP)/user_data/Home_Folder_Directories.zip ;

Why do none of these work anymore or what is the correct command now?

Is this a bug?

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