On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> >> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when >> trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case >> for two months now. Is there a solution ? > > It's the time to use ar -x. Or be patient.
Nah, neither. This is free software after all… > http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2552 …and there's even a patch available! The bug is in a perl script (/usr/lib/mc/extfs.d/deb) that you can edit directly if you don't care about debsums complaining: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- --- deb.orig 2010-09-08 00:00:00.000000000 +0200 +++ deb 2011-05-10 15:46:07.000000000 +0200 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ { while(<PIPEIN>) { - split; + @_ = split; $perm=$_[0]; $owgr=$_[1]; $size=$_[2]; if($_[3] =~ /^\d\d\d\d\-/) { # New tar format @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ { while(<PIPEIN>) { - split; + @_ = split; $size=$_[0]; last if $size =~ /:/; next if $size !~ /\d+/; --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Rebuilding the package is of course cleaner, but I was too lazy to do that. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87pqmop3j6....@turtle.gmx.de
