Re: dpkg-gencontrol error when building kernel with kernel-package

1997-06-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, From the file /usr/doc/kernel-package/Problems.gz == c) dpkg-gencontrol fails with the error message failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek This is an error in older versions of dpkg-dev. Upgrading

dpkg-gencontrol error when building kernel with kernel-package

1997-06-29 Thread Joost Kooij
Hi you gurus out there, dpkg-gencontrol suddenly breaks when I try to build a debian-packaged kernel image. The last time I tried this it worked, the system was an upgraded 1.3 then. The only differences between now and then that I can think of are some installed packages from bo-updates, inclu