On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 04:33:21PM -0400, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > 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? It describes the situation, but not how to make the magic number be something dpkg will recognize if you're not using dpkg-dev to build the sucker. Unless of course someone wants to make dpkg-dev available in nondebian.tar.gz for people not using Debian to be able to make .deb files for it. That's really something that Debian is missing IMO.
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