Re: dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs from installed packages
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 02:39:16 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> said:
> Announcing my new script,
> http://jidanni.org/comp/debian/dpkg-repackage recreates lost .debs
> from installed packages.
How does this differ from dpkg-repack?
# apt-cache show dpkg-repack
Package: dpkg-repack
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 60
Maintainer: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Version: 1.20
Depends: perl, dpkg-dev
Filename: pool/main/d/dpkg-repack/dpkg-repack_1.20_all.deb
Size: 10758
MD5sum: 601dbdd19da0ebee23774d222e1a1000
Description: puts an unpacked .deb file back together
dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a debian package that has already
been installed. If any changes have been made to the package while it was
unpacked (ie, files in /etc were modified), the new package will inherit
the changes.
.
This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to another,
or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but no longer
available elsewhere, or to store the current state of a package before you
upgrade it.
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