Bug#255318: Additional information

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Sebastian Ley <sebastian.ley@mmweg.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 09:51:49AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> What happens if you do a 
>> 
>> apt-get --reinstall install tetex-base
>
> Symlink is still missing.
>
> But:
> When I wanted to examine the contetnts of the deb I found the
> following:
>
> coyote:/var/cache/apt/archives# LANG=C dpkg -c tetex-base_2.0.2-9_all.deb| grep updmap
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      4430 2003-01-30 12:09:33 ./usr/share/tetex-base/updmap.cfg
> tar: Skipping to next header
> tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
> dpkg-deb: subprocess tar returned error exit status 2
> coyote:/var/cache/apt/archives# 

Google gives some hits on this bug, also with Debian, but nothing that
really seems to be an easy explanation. What versions of tar and
binutils do you have on your system?

I don't get that error, neither in my woody+Backports main system, nor
in an up-to-date sid chroot; all is i386 with a home-brewn 2.4.25
kernel. Which md5sum does your incarnation of the tetex-base deb have?

$ md5sum src/Packages/tetex-base/pbuilder-result/tetex-base_2.0.2-9_all.deb
559432b63e15085678a951b4e8e0473f  src/Packages/tetex-base/pbuilder-result/tetex-base_2.0.2-9_all.deb

(which is, of course, the same as in the .changes file).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie