Re: creating a .deb with only tar and ar
Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@earthlink.net> writes:
On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 02:09:05AM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote:
> >>>>> "Joey" =3D=3D Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> writes:
> Joey> Does dpkg-deb do something tricky to the format of the ar
> Joey> file when it's creating a .deb? Something that can't be
> Joey> reproduced using standard ar?
>=20
> Yes. It encodes some bytes in the headers. Standard ar will ignore
> them for extraction but dpkg won't accept a straight 'ar' file as
> legit.
It should be clearly documented how to put those bytes in place if it's not
then. This kind of thing Should Be Clearly Avalabile To All.
You mean like in deb(8)? Or does
The file is an ar archive with a magic number of !<arch>.
Note that many modern versions of ar create archives with
different magic numbers. Archives created in this way
will not be recognised by dpkg-deb, though these ar pro-
grams do understand the magic number used by dpkg-deb.
not fully describe the situation?
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