From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hubert Chan Subject: Re: silent semantic changes with reiser4 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:28:26 -0400 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <87n00bmab9.fsf@uhoreg.ca> References: <20040825204240.GI21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040825212518.GK21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826001152.GB23423@mail.shareable.org> <20040826003055.GO21964@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20040826010049.GA24731@mail.shareable.org> <20040826100530.GA20805@taniwha.stupidest.org> <20040826110258.GC30449@mail.shareable.org> <20040827210638.GE709@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <4133CDA6.4060105@slaphack.com> <20040831082144.GA535@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Return-path: Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:50368 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265847AbUHaS2f (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:28:35 -0400 Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C2DMu-0003mI-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:28:33 +0200 Received: from s010600c049da4211.ed.shawcable.net ([68.151.38.99]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:28:32 +0200 Received: from hubert by s010600c049da4211.ed.shawcable.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:28:32 +0200 To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org >>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek 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". -- Hubert Chan - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.