Package: linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 Version: 3.2.12-1 I tried to install a wheezy 3.2 kernel package on an old lenny box because a bit of USB hardware needed a newish kernel.
This almost worked very well, with minimal packages upgraded, but I got this error: Unpacking linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 (from .../linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg-deb: file /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb' contains ununderstood data member data.tar.xz , giving up dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-3.2.0-2-486_3.2.12-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 It seems that the problem is that the version of dpkg in lenny, 1.14.31, does not understand .xz. v1.15.6 is needed for that: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542160 linux-image-3.2.0-2-486 ought to declare this (or stop using xz so that it can be installed on very old machines, but that's probably not worth doing for this rather obscure case). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Emdebian, Wookware, Balloonboard, ARM http://wookware.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120328022804.ge26...@dream.aleph1.co.uk
