From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cwillu Subject: Re: Cannot Deinstall a Debian Package Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 15:50:57 -0600 Message-ID: References: <201105031227.43619.CACook@quantum-sci.com> <201105051357.07209.CACook@quantum-sci.com> <1304629163.11048.7.camel@havelock.liw.fi> <201105051448.25771.CACook@quantum-sci.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: linux-btrfs To: CACook@quantum-sci.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: <201105051448.25771.CACook@quantum-sci.com> List-ID: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:48 PM, wrote: > On Thursday 5 May, 2011 13:59:23 Lars Wirzenius wrote: >> dpkg --fsys-tarfile foo.deb | tar -C / -tf - > > I was expecting this to extract into the local directory, although it= seems to have extracted into the final destinations. =C2=A0Can't be su= re. =C2=A0grub-setup -V gives the new version. > > >> change -t to -x to actually extract > > I don't see the distinction. =C2=A0It does seem to have extracted. tar -t just lists the contents, -x actually does an extract. It's plausible that the update you attempted before did actually unpack the files to their locations, and only failed to run the post-install scripts. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html