Re: What is a .udeb file?
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:30:07AM +0100, Petr Cech wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 11:22:40PM +0000 , John O Sullivan wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Whats the difference between a .deb and a .udeb
> > Theres some of these in debian/pool/main/a/anna/
> > and also in file-retriever, main-menu, udpkg and wget-retriever
> > these all seem to be version 0.00x too..
>
> look at debian-boot archives. Threads about debian-install and such.
> Mainly these are really stripped .debs for debian-install.
Yes. I'm not sure, but I'd guess the the "u" stands for micro[1], yielding "microdebs".
>
> Petr Cech
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> <Myth> thats \\GNU\Linux$ to you
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[1] As in the Greek character mu.
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