Re: help with building from source

["Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <tshepang@gmail.com>]

On 5/28/07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I did "apt-get source ecj" which downloaded ecj sources. I get inside
> its directory and did "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -d" because if
> failed to build. I deleted that directory, but when I try "apt-get
> source ecj" again it prints the following:
>
> """
> Need to get 0B/903B of source archives.
> Failed to fetch
> file:/home/wena/repos/sid/pool/main/e/ecj/ecj_3.3~M7-2.dsc  rename
> failed, No such file or directory (ecj_3.3~M7-2.dsc ->
> ecj_3.3~M7-2.dsc.FAILED).
> E: Failed to fetch some archives.
> """
>
> I don't know how to proceed after hitting this wall. Please help...

The trouble was caused by a the automatic modification of the .dsc and
I don't know of a way of to revert the change, so a workaround was
downloading the .dsc file again and running apt-get update.


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