Re: dpkg bootstrapping
On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Jor-el wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've gotten to the point in my AIX port where a valid deb is built
> using dpkg-buildpackage. However, trying to install the .deb using dpkg -i
> gives me the error
>
> dpkg: failed to open package info file '<build prefix>/lib/db/status' for
> reading: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.
>
> If I do a 'touch <build prefix>/lib/db/status' to create the
> file, I then get a 'failed to malloc for info file' - so obviously the
> program is expecting some content to be there already.
Huh?
ohshite(_("failed to malloc for info file `%.255s'"),filename);
That's from lib/cache.c. It should have given you the filename.
That's the only match in the dpkg source for that error message. Did you
change all the printfs?
ps: I note you are not using mmap(the above line is #ifdef'd out when mmap is
enabled. Does aix not work with mmap?
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