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Re: Bug#5539: Corrupt file: Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb (7254k)



Raymond Rusk <rrusk@uvic.ca> writes:

> This isn't actually a bug.  It is a corrupt tarfile report for the
> following
> package on ftp.debian.org:
> 
> Debian-1.1-fixed/binary-i386/base/kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb (7254k)

Believe it or not; this looks like a bug in dpkg.  I did the
following, all of which executed without error:

mkdir -p tmp/DEBIAN
dpkg-deb -x kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb tmp
dpkg-deb -e kernel-source-2.0.23_0.deb tmp/DEBIAN
dpkg-deb -b tmp tryagain.deb

But then `dpkg -i tryagain.deb' fails!  Ian?


Guy

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