Re: Bug#284642: ITP: dpkg-reversion -- change the version of a DEB file
Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote:
>>
>> > Adam Heath wrote:
>> > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I
>> > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output.
>> > >
>> > > Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, filesystem
>> > >
>> > > filter mode: standard tar output
>> > >
>> > > output mode: filesystem, .deb, .rpm
>> > >
>> > > Repacking and editting then become easy to do.
>> >
>> > Is there web page for such plans? I couldn't find anything useful with
>> > Google.
>> >
>> I certainly don't share these plans.
>
> You came on after I last discussed this with anyone from the dpkg team.
>
> The above makes it easy to exclude whole heiarachies, ie, /usr/share/doc.
>
> It can also be used to alter /lib to /lib64 or /lib32, on the fly, during
> install.
So filter software should read a tar file and output an altered tar
file? What about meta informations? Or how is it supposed to work?
MfG
Goswin
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