RE: what am IO doing bad?

Possibly you have text mode mounts and the dpkg port isn't text mode
aware yet? (text mode is often missed in early ports to cygwin).

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Svarc [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2002 3:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: what am IO doing bad?
> 
> 
> Good morning,
> 
> What am I doing bad, if I'm not able to install dpkg with this output:
> 
> root@VLAS ~
> $ id -a
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=513(None),0(root),545(Users)
> 
> root@VLAS ~
> $ wget.exe -c 
> http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/bootstrap/dpkg_1.9.18_w32
.de
b
--07:38:23--
http://debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net/bootstrap/dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb

           => `dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb'
Resolving debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net... done.
Connecting to debian-cygwin.sourceforge.net[216.136.171.201]:80...
connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1,430,388 [text/plain]

100%[====================================>] 1,430,388    103.52K/s
ETA 00:00

07:38:38 (103.52 KB/s) - `dpkg_1.9.18_w32.deb' saved [1430388/1430388]


root@VLAS ~
$ touch /var/lib/dpkg/available

root@VLAS ~
$ touch /var/lib/dpkg/status

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

root@VLAS ~

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