DPKG error message about 'status' file
I am nearing the completion of my first Debianized source package
(cheers) and finding myself caught in a snag. I'm using the gnu hello
debian/ files as templates which has worked well. The catch occurs
when it executes the command
dpkg-shlibdeps curves
which returns the output
dpkg: failed to open package info file `/usr/var/dpkg/status' for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg-shlibdeps: failure: dpkg --search gave error exit status 2
I successfully compiled dpkg for a non-debian system (more cheers) and
installed it. The question is, what is this 'status' thing. Is it a
file? A directory? When I touch it to create an empty file, there is
a problem finding the 'available' file in the same directory. I touch
this and I find loads of errors where it cannot find dependency
information and others where it complains about my empty changelog
file.
Sometimes I can hack my way through these kinds of problems and create
a workable product. Here, I fear that I'm swimming into domain of the
undertow.
Suggestions?
-- Marc Singer
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