Re: dpkg --fsys-tarfile and dpkg --contents contradiction ?

[shaulk@netvision.net.il (shaul)]

Kain is right. The correct switches are xO.
As was mentioned in my message, I was trying to follow the packaging tutorial, 
which says that

<start quotation>

To view the copyright file for a package you could use this command: 

  dpkg --fsys-tarfile filename.deb | tar xof usr/doc/\*copyright | less

<end quotation>
 
As far as I checked it still has the wrong entry (see 
www.debian.org/doc/pacaking-manuals/packaging.html/ch-binarypkg.html, just 
before section 2.2).

> On Mon, Aug 09, 1999 at 12:29:59AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> > 
> > * "shaul" == shaul  <shaulk@netvision.net.il> wrote:
> > 
> > shaul> tar: Cannot open usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright: No such file or directory
> I missed this in the shaul's message at first, and nuked the orig. message, so I don't have the context.  Sorry.
> 
> Actually, the problem that he has here is that "xof" were the options specified on his commandline.  In effect, he was trying to extract a V7 tar archive from the file usr/doc/xfonts-100dpi/copyright.  If this filespec is present on the system, I doubt that it's a tarfile. :)
> 
> You'll probably get better results using xO and then the filename in the tar archive for the copyright file.  (This is, of course, presuming that your tar is compiled with stdin/stdout as the default device.)
> 
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> Bryon Roche, Kain <elvnhaqr@bigfoot.com>
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