On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 08:38:17PM +0000, John Leuner wrote: > I issue: > > $ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot > > which subsequently does: > > dpkg-source -b makeme-0.00 > dpkg-source: building makeme using existing makeme_0.00.orig.tar.gz > > gunzip: stdin: not in gzip format > dpkg-source: failure: gzip gave error exit status 1 > cpio: premature end of archive > > because my original archive is: > > makeme-2000-06-26.tar.bz2 > > How do I tell it to use bz2?
You can't do that. But, it's allowed to bunzip2+gzip it. -- Digital Electronic Being Intended for Assassination and Nullification

