Hi,
I have been trying to create a .deb package
of the most recent version of dpkg. It isn't going
so well. I noted the following errors from the log
that maybe relevent...
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preinstalling bash...
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
preinstalling perl...
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
preinstalling perl-base...
ar: error while loading shared libraries: libz.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
tar: control.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
tar: data.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
.....
dpkg: libc6: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
libc6 depends on libc-bin (= 2.11.1-0ubuntu7); however:
Package libc-bin is not installed.
libc6 depends on debconf (>= 0.5) | debconf-2.0; however:
Package debconf is not installed.
Package debconf-2.0 is not installed.
libc6 depends on libgcc1; however:
Package libgcc1 is not installed.
libc6 depends on tzdata; however:
Package tzdata is not installed.
libc6 depends on findutils (>= 4.4.0-2ubuntu2); however:
Package findutils is not installed.
....
dpkg: plymouth: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you requested:
plymouth depends on mountall (>= 2.0); however:
Package mountall is not installed.
update-initramfs: deferring update (trigger activated)
Processing triggers for initramfs-tools ...
installing mountall
Processing triggers for man-db ...
configure all installed packages...
removing nis flags from //etc/nsswitch.conf...
now finalizing build dir...
dpkg-source: warning: could not verify signature on /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/dpkg_1.16.1ubuntu1.dsc since gpg isn't installed
dpkg-source: info: extracting dpkg in /usr/src/packages/BUILD
dpkg-source: info: unpacking dpkg_1.16.1ubuntu1.tar.bz2
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----- building dpkg_1.16.1ubuntu1.dsc (user abuild)
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dpkg-buildpackage: set CFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CPPFLAGS to default value:
dpkg-buildpackage: set LDFLAGS to default value: -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions
dpkg-buildpackage: set FFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: set CXXFLAGS to default value: -g -O2
dpkg-buildpackage: source package dpkg
dpkg-buildpackage: source version 1.16.1ubuntu1
dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Colin Watson