In a message dated: Wed, 07 Nov 2001 00:05:01 EST
Benjamin Scott said:
> Okay, I tracked down a copy of GNU's cpio, version 2.4.2, the latest on
>their website. I compiled their mt, version 2.4.2. And I still don't get
>output like Paul's. Closer than the mt-st Red Hat is apparently using, but
>still not that. In particular, most of my output is just raw numbers -- no
>interpretation of status bits or anything like that. Also,
>"datacompression" is not recognized as a valid command. In fact, darn near
>nothing is -- the forward/back space commands are about it. I've looked at
>the source, and they just plain aren't there.
This is a really stupid question, but have you checked the kernel to
make sure the SCSI tape driver is compiled in and/or the module is
being loaded? Could this be a case where the kernel just doesn't
know how to interpret the data being sent back by the tape drive?
> Does Paul or anyone know where Debian gets their "mt"?
I thought it was simply the Gnu mt command.
> Is it just patches Debian applies? If so, does anyone want to give me
> a crash course in how to download and extract source and patches from
>a Debian package? I know how to do it with RPM -- 'rpm2cpio' on a source
>RPM will nicely give you whatever files Red Hat used to patch and build
>their binary package. What's the Debian equivalent?
Hmmm, I never knew about the rpm2cpio thingy. On Debian I just use
apt-get for the source. Provided you have your sources.list file
correctly set up for source packages, you should just be able to do:
apt-get source cpio
and it will create, in the cwd, a source tree and the tar-ball of the
source for you.
Hope that helps!
--
Seeya,
Paul
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...we don't need to be perfect to be the best around,
and we never stop trying to be better.
Tom Clancy, The Bear and The Dragon
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