Re: Becoming a new developper

[Gergely Madarasz <gorgo@caesar.elte.hu>]

On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Steve Haslam wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 05:04:02PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 11:30:02AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote:
> > > I assume that you allow gcc, but I will use ar, tar and gzip for the
> > > packaging.
> > 
> > ar can't create .debs
> 
> Er, why not? .debs are just ar archives with an empty file,
> control.tar(.gz)? and data.tar(.gz)? in- you can certainly *read* .debs with
> ar...

There are some magic numbers involved afaik.

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