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