Re: Extracting debian{rules,postinst, etc) from the *.deb files, possible?

To: david@eos.lugs.ch (David Frey)
Cc: debian-devel@pixar.com
Subject: Re: Extracting debian{rules,postinst, etc) from the *.deb files, possible?
From: andrew@toaster.it.com.au (Andrew Howell)
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 02:28:38 +0800 (WST)
Message-id: <[🔎] m0tyNC3-0005lkC@toaster.it.com.au>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] m0tyMKb-000AORC@eos> from "David Frey" at Mar 17, 96 06:33:23 pm

David Frey writes:
> 
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Is it possible to extract the postist, preinst, rules etc. files out
> of a package in case of not having the sources of it (eg. manpages)?

Yeah with 'dpkg-deb -e' I believe.

Andrew

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