Re: Packages

[<finn@midco.net>]

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote:

: Hi all
: 
: I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and
: I noticed that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three
: different formats, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what
: the differences are in these three formats. 
: 
: they are
: 		.dsc
: 		.orig.tar.gz
: 		.diff.gz

No, these aren't different source formats.  You need all three files.

: I guess the .orig.tar.gz ones are standard tar.gz files but what are the .dsc
: and diff.gz formats?

*.orig.tar.gz denotes pristine source.  *.dsc is the description file
... also contains md5sums and PGP signature.  *.diff.gz is the diff
file. Use dpkg-source, like so 'dpkg-source -x file.dsc' ... this will
unpack the source and apply the diff(s), set up the control file, etc.

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