Bug#2260: manpages-1.9-3.deb on chiark corrupted
Package: manpages
Version: 1.9-3
The version of manpages 1.9-3 in my upload queue is corrupted.
See below for a session transcript.
What version of dpkg-deb built this file ? Does it match the version
on the package maintainer's disk ?
Ian.
-chiark:~/download> ll *.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 313409 Jan 30 02:01 manpages-1.9-3.deb
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 192226 Jan 29 02:26 netbase-1.24-1.deb
-r--r--r-- 1 ian ian 62713 Jan 23 23:22 procps-0.98-0.deb
-chiark:~/download> really dpkg -i manpages-1.9-3.deb netbase-1.24-1.deb
(Reading database ... 17438 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace manpages (using manpages-1.9-3.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement manpages ...
dpkg: error processing manpages-1.9-3.deb (--install):
corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive
Preparing to replace netbase (using netbase-1.24-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement netbase ...
Setting up netbase ...
Starting base networking daemons: rpc.portmap inetd
Errors were encountered while processing:
manpages-1.9-3.deb
-chiark:~/download> dpkg --contents manpages-1.9-3.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jan 23 11:26 1996 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jan 23 11:27 1996 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jan 23 11:27 1996 usr/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 Jan 23 11:27 1996 usr/man/man1/
... listing of many manpages deleted - iwj ...
-rw-r--r-- root/root 15 Jan 23 11:28 1996 usr/man/man3/pow.3
-rw-r--r-- root/root 12739 Jan 23 11:28 1996 usr/man/man3/printf.3
tar: Skipping to next file header
-chiark:~/download> md5sum manpages-1.9-3.deb
dfb86d321e33a475087411cbe5d41214 manpages-1.9-3.deb
-chiark:~/download>
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