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Re: debootstrap says Packages was corrupt



Neale Banks wrote:
> Extremely weird indeed - and raises the question of just how should we
> generate Packages[.gz] which are acceptable to the current install tools.  
> Any suggestions?

Before, I was creating the Packages files, and did a 'gzip -c -9
Packages > Packages.gz' to compress them. If I do them with 'cat
Packages | gzip --best > Packages.gz', like debian-cd does it, then it
works.

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