Re: creating a .deb with only tar and ar

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 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?

I don't think that's the whole story. Debian's ar seems to use the right
magic number, something else in the format makes dpkg-deb reject packages
made with straight ar.

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