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Re: Static apt for upgrading old Debian releases?



Previously Erik Andersen wrote:
> Does it use tar and gzip?  What other external dependancies
> does it have?  Would it be appropriate to incorporate any/all
> of these externs into dpkg (perhaps using the BusyBox utils)?

gzip is used to uncompress the compress files, and tar is used
to extract the metadata. I'm not planning on incorporating them
directly into dpkg anytime soon, if ever.

Wichert.

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