Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4

Hubert Chan
2004-08-31T18:28:35Z

>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

Pavel> Hi!
>> | uservfs does
>> |
>> | cd foo.deb#uar cd foo.deb/ar | vs. | cd foo.deb#udeb cd
>> foo.deb/deb
>>
>> and why would you want that, instead of just: cd foo.deb # for the ar
>> dpkg -i foo.deb # for the deb

Pavel> Because I want to see contents of that .deb package, nicely
Pavel> parsed?

What nicely-parsed information do you want to see? A deb package is an
ar archive of three files:
- debian-binary, which contains the deb format version
- control.tar.gz, which contains the control data and related things
- data.tar.gz, which contains the actual files to be installed

So to get at the format version, you can "cat foo.deb/debian-binary".
To look at the control data, you can "ls foo.deb/control.tar.gz". To
browse the files, "cd foo.deb/data.tar.gz".

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