Hello there,
I have been following the tutorial from:
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/337
In the end I have a file:
svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
Now for the fun part ! I then extract everybody:
ar x svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
(creates debian-binary, control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz), which I then repackage:
ar r svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
The very first time I get:
$ dpkg -i svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
dpkg-deb: file `svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb' is not a debian binary
archive (try dpkg-split?)
dpkg: error processing svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb (--install):
subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
After some googling around I found out I need to replace the trailing
/ of each filename with space (using hexedit). Now the package works:
$ dpkg -i svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package svnyoungest.
(Reading database ... 100969 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking svnyoungest (from svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up svnyoungest (0.1) ...
The trouble here is that I cannot reproduce my initial bug anymore. I
have tried a couple of things to clean the cache:
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
apt-get --purge remove svnyoungest
No luck, I cannot reproduce my initial problem...
Where is this cached .deb file that is being used when I call:
$ dpkg -i svnyoungest_0.1_i386.deb
thanks,
--
Mathieu
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