Re: Serious "Bug" in most major Linux distros.
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:26:16PM -0700, dman wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:28:13PM -0700, Petro wrote:
> | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:45PM -0700, dman wrote:
> | > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:08:48PM -0700, Petro wrote:
> | > | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> | > | > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote:
> | > | > > Mostly just some basic copy tools.
> | > | > If you need to pick things out of .debs, then you'll need a
> working
> | > | > dpkg. Or ar + tar ( & gzip if memory serves).
> | > | Actually, just tar and cp.
> | > A deb is an ar archive that contains two gzipped tarballs. Thus you
> | > first need ar to extract the tarballs, then gunzip to decompress
> them,
> | > and then finally tar and cp to do the rest.
> |
> | Yes, and with cp and tar I can either get a file from somewhere
> | else, or copy some files to a location where they will survive a
> | reinstall.
> Oh, you're looking to salvage something from the wreckage before
> scrapping it. The comment above was about pulling files out of a .deb
Yes. Or just figuring out if there is even a wreck, how it happened
etc.
> with the intent of restoring the "wreckage" rather than scrapping it.
> Reread the quoted text from Karl.
I know what he is saying, and he's right in a limited way. If your
entire ability to administer a system envolves unpacking .debs and
answering the configure questions they ask, a static shell is
pointless.
I'm not in that position.
> | > | > Correction: Relatively easy, and a relatively large amount of
> | > work...
> | > | Doesn't sound like it.
> | > Building tweaked binary packages from the source package is really
> | > easy, as long as your tweaks are major rewrites of the app or
> | > something.
> | No, I meant it doesn't sound like a lot of work.
> I didn't get that the first time.
Yeah, sometimes I'm a little too terse. Less isn't always more.
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