Dale Scheetz writes: > > I am converting the joe package to the new source format and have run into > a strange problem. The first time I run dpkg-buildpackage the .orig tree > is tarred up ok. The second time I run it, it tries to use the tar.gz file > created in the previous run but fails, giving: > > dpkg-source -b joe-2.8 > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz' contains unexpected > object listed by tar as `-rw-r--r-- root/users 0 Jan 22 22:45 1995 > joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc link to joe-2.8.orig/.jmacsrc', expected > `joe-2.8.orig/jmacsrc' > dpkg-source: building joe using existing joe_2.8.orig.tar.gz
The same problem happens with sudo. It seems that Ian's scripts cannot handle hard links. Michael -- Michael Meskes | _____ ________ __ ____ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | / ___// ____/ // / / __ \___ __________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \__ \/ /_ / // /_/ /_/ / _ \/ ___/ ___/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ___/ / __/ /__ __/\__, / __/ / (__ ) Use Debian GNU/Linux! | /____/_/ /_/ /____/\___/_/ /____/