Re: what am IO doing bad?

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:42:07AM +0200, Jan Svarc wrote:
> 
> root@VLAS ~
> $ dpkg -i dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package dpkg.
> (Reading database ... 0 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking dpkg (from dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb (--install):
>  corrupted filesystem tarfile - corrupted package archive: error 0
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb
> 

 dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb| tar t
 doesn't give any error messages on my copy of the file.  I haven't tried
installing it, because I'm on a Linux system.  However, your dpkg is saying
that the fsys tarfile is bad, but it isn't according to i386/Linux dpkg
tools (which are very likely to be reliable :).

 BTW, what does error 0 mean?  Is that the exit status from something?  Why
is 0 an error?  Does anybody know?

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