Re: Whoops- extracting source for deb.
On Sunday 07 Oct 2001 9:06 pm, Hereward Cooper wrote:
> I accidently deleted the source directory of my package, but have a
> copy of the .deb it generated. When I run dpkg-source -x
> <package-name> it gives me a couple of errors that i know about (as I
> was play around with it), and so stops. Is there anyway I can force
> extract the source from the deb, regardless of the errors?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hereward
Umm no. a .deb is the binary archive. It contains the binaries of the
package. The source package contains the source. There is no source
in the .deb.
Sorry,
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Stephen Stafford
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