Re: Bug#711135: Re: compiling a bootable kernel for ia64 (itanium2, mckinley, rx2620)

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.ia64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/25/2018 03:00 PM, Eberhard Heuser wrote:
> This is what I get, if I add the lines above:
> 
> debconf: apt-extracttemplates schlug fehl: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> Extrahiere Vorlagen aus Paketen: 100%
> dpkg-deb: Fehler: Archiv »/var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_10.1_ia64.deb« enthält nicht verstandene Datenelemente control.tar.xz, Abbruch
> dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_10.1_ia64.deb (--unpack):
>  Unterprozess dpkg-deb --control gab den Fehlerwert 2 zurück
> Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/base-files_10.1_ia64.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> Any ideas?

You need to upgrade "dpkg" first before you can perform a dist-upgrade:

# apt-get install dpkg

Your current version of dpkg doesn't know how to handle xz compression.

Adrian
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