On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 01:51:10AM +0200, Andrey Andreev wrote: > Hey, here is what is really interesting to me as someone new to Debian - > you seem to say that installing the kernel might run mkinitrd to create > the initrd for that kernel (which would be neat, and require me to tidy > up my /etc/mkinitrd). Now, I don't know if it does, but I'd like to take > a look into the postinstall scripts in the kernel-image deb and see for > myself. How would I look into a package? (checking preinstall and > postinstall scripts in this particular page, but generally I tend to > like to look into everything after a while) Hi, a .deb archive is really only a "ar" archive, which, once unpacked, yields the files "control.tar.gz" (containing the install/remove scripts and similar stuff), "data.tar.gz" (containing the files that are to be installed) and a version file, "debian-binary", IIRC. If you've already installed the package, however, the scripts reside in /var/lib/dpkg/info. Regards, Jan -- Jan C. Nordholz <jckn At gmx net>
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