Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format
> .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.
I'd think the info-zip package would have been a better choice since you
can extract individual elements without uncomressing the whole mess and
you wouldn't need two layers of archiving.
Les Mikesell
les@mcs.com
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