Re: Debian from the Stampede's POV
On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:57:39AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 1998 08:45:42 +0000, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote:
>
> >Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies?
>
> Yes it does, minimally. I'm not familiar with DEB but what I liked about
> SLP was that it was just a TGZ with the package information appended to the
> end. So instead of being a supplimant to TGZ it could flat out replace it
> since those who want the tarballs can have them in the SLP.
.deb files contain .tar.gz files, of course; use 'ar x <filename.deb>'
to extract into control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz and one other; data.tar.gz
contains the files.
hamish
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