On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, <cac...@quantum-sci.com> wrote: > On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:59:23 Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar -C / -tf - > > I was expecting this to extract into the local directory, although it seems > to have extracted into the final destinations. Can't be sure. grub-setup -V > gives the new version. > > >> change -t to -x to actually extract > > I don't see the distinction. It does seem to have extracted.
tar -t just lists the contents, -x actually does an extract. It's plausible that the update you attempted before did actually unpack the files to their locations, and only failed to run the post-install scripts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
