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Re: Not a valid DEB package error



În data de Ma, 25-01-2005 la 10:06 -0500, Justin Pryzby a scris:
> On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:57:16PM +0200, Mugurel Tudor wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > 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.
> Reading the apt source, that error only occurs when the .deb is
> missing a control.tar.gz.  I take it you are not using dh_make?  :)

The control.tar.gz is there. And yes, I don't use dh_make.

> 
> Justin
> 
> 
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