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Re: Not a valid DEB package error



On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 05:22:44PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> > I created some DEB packages, and everything is OK with one exception:
> > for every package that I created, at instalation time, I get the
> > following error (on Debian Stable and also on Debian Unstable):
> > 
> 
> I have to mention also that I created the package with ar (the version
> from debian). I put together a debian_binary, a control.tar.gz and a
> data.tar.gz with something like this:
> 
> ar cr foo-1.1.3-4.deb debian_binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz

Why don't you use dpkg-deb?

That's the correct way to build Debian package. Even if you are going to
simply build only binary package.

regards
fEnIo

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