On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 05:08:50PM -0600, Paul Serice wrote: > In the upper directory are the following files: > > crafty-16.2/ crafty_16.2-1_i386.changes > crafty-16.2.orig.tar.gz crafty_16.2-1_i386.deb > crafty_16.2-1.dsc crafty_16.2-1_i386.upload > crafty_16.2-1.tar.gz > > The "crafty-16.2.orig.tar.gz" (with a hyphen) file existed before I ran > "build." I might have misread the "The New-Maintainer's Debian
dpkg-source will not use the hyphenated one. Since the underscored one did not exist, dpkg-source built a new one, containing the debian directory as well. > When I try to build using "crafty_16.2.orig.tar.gz" (with an underscore > instead), I get the following error message. > > dpkg-source: building crafty using existing crafty_16.2.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: error: crafty_16.2.orig.tar.gz extracted into >1 directory > > After this error has stopped "build", a directory called > "crafty_16.2.orig.tar.gz.tmp-nest" exists in the upper directory with > the original source extracted into it. It thinks that the .orig.tar.gz has multiple top level directories, and it can't cope. I don't think there is any solution, except to unpack it, clean it up and repack it. Pristine source is preferred but sometimes changes are unavoidable. > Another thing that might be of interest is that the original tarball > unpacks to the current directory instead of creating its own > subdirectory. Perhaps that's the problem, but I think that is normally ok. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org
