Re: dpkg and debiandoc-sgml rebuild
> On May 03, Roland Rosenfeld scratched in indelible ink :
> and/or debiandoc-sgml, you will have to install them and this won't be
> possible, because you need an installed dpkg for this...
>
actually, it did work with shellutils (another one that was partly trashed)
did apt-get source shellutils, debian/rules build, make install (in the build
dir)
> bug an ar(1) archive, so you can decompress it using "ar x". After
> this, you will have tree files (debian-binary, control.tar.gz, and
> data.tar.gz) in your current directory. cd to / and run
> "tar xvfz /tmp/data.tar.gz". After this, you should have a working
>
this worked. Thank you, and I shall keep it in mind for the future.
/Jp
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Jean-Paul Blaquiere || Student of Computational
japester@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au || Thaumaturgy
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his
twin brother. - Kahlil Gibran
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