On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Debian List wrote: > Hi!! > > Thanks again... > > Ok I tried the dpkg-source -x and here's the error I got: > dpkg-source: error: tarfile `./mgetty_1.1.8.orig.tar.gz' contains object > (mgetty-1.1.8/README.1st) not in expected directory (mgetty-1.1.8.orig) > > Help! ;) > > Ricardo
I had a similar problem with the xemacs20 source package - here's what I did, soup to nuts: Got the .tar.gz, .dsc, and .diff.gz files from ftp.debian.org. Since I have a bo system, I then had to make certain that I wasn't using the ldso from hamm. (the dpkg-dev in bo has problems with the ldd in ldso 1.9.x) Then, after experiencing the same problem with dpkg-source, I untarred the .tar.gz file into a temporary directory, and moved it about. That is, I did (something equivalent to) cd /tmp tar -xzf /usr/local/incoming/xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar.gz Now, this should have created a directory called xemacs20-20.2.orig; instead, however, it created xemacs-20.2.orig (I think; I know that the name was wrong, but can't remember exactly how it was wrong). So then I did: mv xemacs-20.2.orig xemacs20-20.2.orig tar -cf xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar xemacs20-20.2.orig gzip xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar This created a new xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar.gz - I then replaced the copy I'd downloaded with this one. This may be all that's needed; however, I also took the extra precaution of modifying the .dsc file; in the .dsc file there will be a line like: ece482d641199333788fb56bc6ea5e55 20651833 xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar.gz I changed this to match my new xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar.gz - this first long gobbledygook string was generated by 'md5sum xemacs20_20.2.orig.tar.gz' - the number after that is the size as shown by ls -l. As I said, this may be unnecessary, but I did it anyway. Then to compile the thing, I didn't use dpkg-buildpackage. Instead, after running the dpkg-source command to extract the package, I found that it (the source) had been put in /usr/local/incoming/xemacs20-20.2/ So then, I did: cd /usr/local/incoming/xemacs20-20.2/ vi debian/rules Now, the debian/rules file is just a makefile; I added the configuration options I needed; you may have to make other changes, (possibly in other files) depending on how mgetty is configured. I then did a debian/rules clean debian/rules build debian/rules binary This produced (after _much_ compiling and whatnot) the .deb packages (more than one since the xemacs source generates xemacs and xemacs-support, etc.) I wanted in /usr/local/incoming. I then could use dpkg to install them as I would any newly-downloaded .deb package. I think you can follow roughly this same procedure to compile your mgetty. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
