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<font face="Verdana">I knew what the issue was I am looking for a
way to get around it. So far I know it has to do with the illegal
character and the fact that almost everything Linux says that the
_ (underscore) is invalid these days. My dpkg config foo is not
that good but I did manage to fake it out once. Then I had to
repair my system. Not to mention that _OSE is in like 10,000
places in the code.<br>
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So the easiest way to fix this is to somehow generate a different
Version string that does not have the _ in the name. That's my
next endeavor anyway.<br>
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On 06/24/2011 01:45 PM, Martin Simmons wrote:
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Ubuntu 10.10 latest VBox from svn.
/trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux/debian rules binary
Any idea how to get around this issue? Debian lenny will complete with
the error but does bark about it.
Looks like the issue is being generated by VBox as the control file has
the exact information that dpkg-deb: is complaining about.
dh_md5sums: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dh_builddeb --destdir /
dh_builddeb: Compatibility levels before 5 are deprecated.
dpkg-deb: parse error, in file 'debian/virtualbox-4.0/DEBIAN/control'
near line 2 package 'virtualbox-4.0':
error in Version string '4.0.51_OSE-37581~Ubuntu~maverick': invalid
character in version number
dh_builddeb: dpkg-deb --build debian/virtualbox-4.0 / returned exit code 2
make[1]: *** [binary] Error 9
make[1]: Leaving directory `/trunk/src/VBox/Installer/linux'
make: *** [binary] Error 2
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I think the invalid character is the underscore in "_OSE", which is from the
version number generated by VBox.
Somehow Oracle build their packages without OSE, but the source code they
release builds with OSE. There is a thread from a few days ago here, but it
hasn't been resolved yet:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/004251.html">http://vbox.innotek.de/pipermail/vbox-dev/2011-June/004251.html</a>
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