Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions"): > On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > > If you get this message [deleted] > > you should upgrade your cpio. [...] > > This resolved the problem for me. At least at this point I can unpack &g

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Ian Jackson wrote: > If you get this message: > > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with > newline in its name > (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest > of output deleted) > >

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-30 Thread Ian Jackson
If you get this message: dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./exmh_1.6.9.orig.tar.gz' contains object with newline in its name (exmh-1.6.9.orig/?exmh-1.6.9.orig/exmh.README?exmh-1.6.9.orig/COPYRIGHT?exmh-1.6.9.orig/e...(rest of output deleted) You should upgrade your cpio. Unfortunately the (Debian

Re: dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-29 Thread Ian Jackson
Karl Sackett writes ("dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions"): > Regarding the -r option for dpkg-buildpackage, are there any > examples of what's called for here? Is the gain-root-command > something each developer provides for himself, or is there a command > or sh

dpkg-buildpackage and -source questions

1996-08-27 Thread Karl Sackett
Regarding the -r option for dpkg-buildpackage, are there any examples of what's called for here? Is the gain-root-command something each developer provides for himself, or is there a command or shell somewhere that performs this function? Invoked as root, dpkg-buildpackage works fine. But when I