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Re: apt-get: where does the extra "1%3a" come from?



On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 08:32:39PM -0500, Abdul Latip wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Colin Watson wrote:
[you're snipping attribution lines too vigorously]
> >> Any clue for a workaround? 
> > You could run dpkg-name on every file in your archive, which would move
> > them to their canonical filenames.
> > 
> >   $ dpkg-name gawk_1%3a3.1.2-1_i386.deb
> >   moved `gawk_1%3a3.1.2-1_i386.deb' to `./gawk_3.1.2-1_i386.deb'
> 
> Thank you!
> I guess, that "dpkg-name" can not be put into the dpkg
> directives at "/etc/apt/apt.conf", right?

No idea. Probably not. Use it as part of the scripts to build your own
archive.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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