Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > try running: > > dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir > > If that fails too, then add "strace -o dpkg-deb.out" to the start of that > line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile (or whatever it was that was failing) and the tarball unrolled fine. -- (jacob kuntz) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED],underworld}.net (megabite systems) "think free speech, not free beer."