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Re: [OT] How do I look inside a .deb [WAS]: Re: Kernel panic on boot with kernel 2.6.10 (SATA SiL 3112A issue maybe)



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
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Jan C. Nordholz
<jckn At gmx net>

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