Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
Kain is right. The correct switches are xO. As was mentioned in my message, I was trying to follow the packaging tutorial, which says that start quotation To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright | less end quotation As far as I checked it still has the wrong entry (see www.debian.org/doc/pacaking-manuals/packaging.html/ch-binarypkg.html, just before section 2.2). On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory I missed this in the shaul's message at first, and nuked the orig. message, so I don't have the context. Sorry. Actually, the problem that he has here is that xof were the options specified on his commandline. In effect, he was trying to extract a V7 tar archive from the file usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright. If this filespec is present on the system, I doubt that it's a tarfile. :) You'll probably get better results using xO and then the filename in the tar archive for the copyright file. (This is, of course, presuming that your tar is compiled with stdin/stdout as the default device.) -- Bryon Roche, Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote: * shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory I missed this in the shaul's message at first, and nuked the orig. message, so I don't have the context. Sorry. Actually, the problem that he has here is that xof were the options specified on his commandline. In effect, he was trying to extract a V7 tar archive from the file usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright. If this filespec is present on the system, I doubt that it's a tarfile. :) You'll probably get better results using xO and then the filename in the tar archive for the copyright file. (This is, of course, presuming that your tar is compiled with stdin/stdout as the default device.) -- Bryon Roche, Kain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
[02:26:37 shaul]$ dpkg --fsys-tarfile /cdrom/Debian-2.1/main/binary-all/x11/xfo nts-100dpi_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | tar xof usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright | less tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [02:27:08 shaul]$ dpkg --contents /cdrom/Debian-2.1/main/binary-all/x11/xfonts- 100dpi_3.3.2.3a-11.deb | grep copyright -rw-r--r-- root/root 9972 1999-02-23 11:00 usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright [02:27:36 shaul]$ When issuing the dpkg --fsys-tarfile I tried follow the packaging tutorial suggestions ( To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright ) What am I doing wrong ?
Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?
* shaul == shaul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: shaul tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory ^^ Is your current working directory / ? Actualy, I find /usr/doc/packagename/copyright easier to use. Ciao, Martin
