Re: dpkg error message
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Jens Christian Lisner wrote:
> I want to recompile the ftape package for kernel-2.0.32.
> I've made a
>
> dpkg-source -x ftape_3.04d-1.dsc
>
> dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./ftape_3.04d.orig.tar.gz' contains object
> (ftape-3.04d/) not in expected directory (ftape-3.04d.orig)
>
> What does this mean?
It means you're unpacking a "pristine source" source archive with dpkg-dev
1.4.0.8 which can't handle it. You need to upgrade dpkg-dev
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Scott K. Ellis <storm@gate.net> http://www.gate.net/~storm/
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