Re: .deb format: let's use 0.939, zstd, drop bzip2
On Thu, May 09, 2019 at 09:22:56AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> Also dpkg keeps metadata in /var, but changelogs, NEWS, copyright
> documentation isn't variable state data and should be below /usr... The
> same is really true for lists of files and maintainer scripts though.
It's a mess:
* Most of the control tarball (to be exact: every file other than "control")
goes to /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PACKAGE.$FILENAME; they're all (I've verified
across all .debs in Buster) plain files of either mode 644 or 755.
* Except for "control" which is sort of concatenated and dumped into
/var/lib/dpkg/status, with "Status:" added.
* On the other hand, /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PACKAGE.list is generated from
the list of files in the data tarball.
Knowing $PACKAGE requires reading the control tarball: if Multi-Arch is
"same" (and no other value), $PACKAGE is "Package:Architecture", "Package"
otherwise.
The data tarball is unpacked into the filesystem mostly as-is, but you still
need to obey diverts, replaces, and symlinks.
Meow!
(I'm reverse-engineering dpkg instead of reading the specs on purpose: in
order to change the spec, what matters is current practice rather than the
letter of documentation, often written 25 years ago before we settled on a
subset of features.)
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