Re: Hamm Upgrade Failure - problem with dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

Mark Phillips <mark@ist.flinders.edu.au> writes:
> # dpkg --info ../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb
> dpkg-deb: `../../binary-all/devel/dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb' is not a debian
> format archive
> 
> What's wrong?  I can't upgrade anything using dselect as a result of this
> bug.

     Try getting dpkg-perl from a different mirror. dpkg --info can
read dpkg-perl_0.1-2.deb from ftp.debian.org, and it installs cleanly
on my machine.  You must have a corrupted file.

Bob
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