On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:09:26 -0400 John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote: > As a long time Slackware user I prefer the simple gzipped tar format because > it is universal. But other formats have their advocates. And I am sure some > Debian aficionado will expound on the merits of DEB format if asked. > AFAIK .deb packages are compressed with "ar". i.e: $ ar x amsn_0.70-1_all.deb $ ls amsn_0.70-1_all.deb control.tar.gz data.tar.gz debian-binary $ tar tzvf control.tar.gz ./ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2002-11-26 14:34:01 ./ -rwxr-xr-x root/root 173 2002-11-26 14:34:00 ./postinst -rwxr-xr-x root/root 1001 2002-11-26 14:34:00 ./prerm -rwxr-xr-x root/root 160 2002-11-26 14:34:00 ./postrm -rw-r--r-- root/root 38 2002-11-26 14:34:00 ./conffiles -rw-r--r-- root/root 9451 2002-11-26 14:34:01 ./md5sums -rw-r--r-- root/root 525 2002-11-26 14:34:01 ./control it's an "ar" archive with one tarball for debian control files and another tarball for program data > The sad part is, many people don't realize that you can unpack a gz file on a > Debian machine, unpack an RPM on a Slackware machine etc. > > John Culleton > > _______________________________________________ > debian-knoppix mailing list > debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org > http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix -- "La guerra preventiva es un invento de Adolfo Hitler, francamente yo no me tomaria en serio a nadie que me viniera a proponer una cosa semejante" Dwight EisenHower - Presidente americano Jorge Bernal (aka Koke)
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