On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > try running: > > > > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir > > > > If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that > > line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file. > > i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile > (or whatever it was that was failing) and the tarball unrolled fine.
That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract, which unpacks the tarball itself. Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it down. -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
