tar problems

[John Goerzen]

Hi,

After I updated my tar version to the latest in sid, .debs appeared to
be getting generated in a way such that dpkg -i creates a /DEBIAN
directory when they get unpacked.  Has anyone seen this before?

You can assume that a number of the .debs in my repository, therefore,
are corrupted.  I will be removing and rebuilding those with the prior
version of tar.

-- John

Re: tar problems

[Tollef Fog Heen]

* John Goerzen 

| After I updated my tar version to the latest in sid, .debs appeared to
| be getting generated in a way such that dpkg -i creates a /DEBIAN
| directory when they get unpacked.  Has anyone seen this before?

You probably managed to get the fucked tar from unstable yesterday.
There should be a new, fixed one in today's push.  (Or fetch it from
incoming.)

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen,''`.
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  `. `' 
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Re: tar problems

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 11:33:45AM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:

 After I updated my tar version to the latest in sid, .debs appeared to
 be getting generated in a way such that dpkg -i creates a /DEBIAN
 directory when they get unpacked.  Has anyone seen this before?

It's a bug in the current version of tar in sid - it doesn't honour the 
--no-recursive option. Bdale's uploaded a new version that fixes it, I 
guess it'll be installed tonight.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]