Re: What does dpkg-source mean with this?

[Roger Leigh <roger@whinlatter.uklinux.net>]

Karolina Lindqvist <pgd-karolinali@algonet.se> writes:

> When I run this, I get the following error messages. What does it mean?
> Which file(s) are already existing?

It looks like open() is being called with O_CREAT | O_EXCL and so
creation will fail if the file is already present.

It looks like all the files are pre-existing.  Try running dpkg-source
-b from another directory or renaming the noteedit-2.0.16 directory?

> $ dpkg-source -b noteedit-2.0.16 noteedit_2.0.16.orig.tar.gz
> dpkg-source: building noteedit using existing noteedit_2.0.16.orig.tar.gz
> tar: noteedit-2.0.16/doc/noteedit/afterCombine.png: Cannot open: File exists
[...]
> tar: noteedit-2.0.16/INSTALL: Cannot open: File exists
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> dpkg-source: failure: tar -xkf - gave error exit status 2


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