Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format
On Apr 17, Raymond A. Ingles wrote
> Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package
> format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar
> archive? So far as I can see:
>
> PROS:
> ".deb" format allows easy ID of packages that can be installed on
> Debian systems.
>
> CONS:
> Cannnot use the Debianized package without dpkg.
false
> Difficult to "unDebianize".
false
.deb is a very simple ar archive. You can use ar to display its
contents and to extract data.tar.gz which contains the package,
control.tar.gz contains the pre/post inst/rm scripts.
(filenames from memory, might be called slightly different)
> Using the universally (well, Unixversally) supported .tar standard has
The package inside .deb is a simple compressed tar archive.
Regards... Joey
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