On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 05:47:06AM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote: > > Nothing. That's URL-encoding representing the epoch in the version > > number; translate %3a to : if you like. > > Unfortunately, when I run "apt-ftparchive" over it, and put all > back on a Web (apache), apt-get can not fetch the package; it > complains that the package does not exists :-(.
I meant to actually rename *%3a* to *:*, if you see what I mean. > Any clue for a workaround? You could run dpkg-name on every file in your archive, which would move them to their canonical filenames. $ dpkg-name gawk_1%3a3.1.2-1_i386.deb moved `gawk_1%3a3.1.2-1_i386.deb' to `./gawk_3.1.2-1_i386.deb' Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

