Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file
Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> writes:
> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>
>> Adam Heath wrote:
>> > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I
>> > mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output.
>> >
>> > Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, filesystem
>> >
>> > filter mode: standard tar output
>> >
>> > output mode: filesystem, .deb, .rpm
>> >
>> > Repacking and editting then become easy to do.
>>
>> Is there web page for such plans? I couldn't find anything useful with
>> Google.
>>
> I certainly don't share these plans.
>
> Scott
> --
> Have you ever, ever felt like this?
> Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
What do you suggest for the following job:
1. download an i386 deb (e.g. openoffice.org) and its libs
2. unpack the debs
3. edit the package name of libs and depends on them to have a 'lib32' prefix
4. rebuild the debs as amd64 debs
The downloading I can do with apt-get, steps 2 and 4 deb-edit
(dpkg-reversion) does for me and step 3 would be the hook in deb-edit.
The deb-edit is pretty much the ideal tool for the job.
MfG
Goswin
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