Re: fwd: [tomsrtbt] More "Tom doesn't like .RPM _or_ .DEB"
David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> In article <[🔎] 19991015134814.G29188@lappy.djj.state.va.us> you write:
> >On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 08:09:30PM +0300, Teemu Hukkanen wrote:
> >>>From tomsrtbt mailing-list
> >Who cares what he likes or doesn't like?
> I have no idea why this was forwarded to debian-devel; but on the tomsrtbt
> mailing list we care what Tom Oehser likes because he is the compiler of an
> extremely high quality rescue floppy (which the list is about).
> In particular, it would be nice if Tom's rescue disc could pick apart
> .debs and .rpms. RPM is basically a lost cause, but .debs look feasible;
> in particular, if the outer file was a tarfile and not an arfile it would
> be trivial (yes, I know that normally one should always use the Debian
> tools because the format of a .deb may change, but this is not really an
> option on a rescue disc), hence Tom's annoyance.
"dpkg-deb" is the program that actually extracts everything. The
source is small and in one file. (But I think it spawns a tar and
gzip process. It does the "ar" stuff itself.)
Steve
dunham@cse.msu.edu
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