Re: Not a valid DEB package error
În data de Ma, 25-01-2005 la 16:06 +0100, Bartosz Fenski aka fEnIo a
scris:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:57:16PM +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):
> >
> > # apt-get install foo
> > Reading Package Lists... Done
> > Building Dependency Tree... Done
> > The following NEW packages will be installed:
> > foo
> > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 2449kB of archives. After unpacking 3121kB will be used.
> > Get:1 http://mtudor-l.aa.local pool/ foo 1.1.3-4 [2449kB]
> > Fetched 2449kB in 0s (10.5MB/s)
> > E: /var/cache/apt/archives/foo_1.1.3-4_i386.deb not a valid DEB package.
> > Selecting previously deselected package avira-core.
> > (Reading database ... 23434 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Unpacking avira-core (from .../foo_1.1.3-4_i386.deb) ...
> > Setting up foo (1.1.3-4) ...
> >
> > I am refering to the "/var/cache/apt/archives/foo_1.1.3-4_i386.deb not a
> > valid DEB package." error. Any idea why is this happening?
>
> Could you put this package somewhere so we could take a look on it?
Unfortunately no :(
I googled around, and I found some problems related to GNU ar (which is
the one I used to create the deb), or related to package signing, but I
am still in the dark here.
The error itself is generated by apt-extracttemplates,and when I looked
with strace, the error is generated in the end (after the components
debian_binary, data.tar.gz and control.tar.gz are extracted by ar). I
can give you the strace log, if this helps.
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