On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Kasper Johansen <k...@spernj.org> wrote: > For future reference: "ar -x some_package.ipk" did the trick. > > Thank you Gunnar! > > > Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes wrote: >> .ipk are like debian (or indeed ubuntu) packages, i.e. they are >> initially packaged with ar, not tar. Unpacking will give you a meta-data >> file plus control.tar.gz. and data.tar.gz, which you can untar as usual. >> data.tar.gz is meants to be untarred in /, i.e. it contains all folders >> up from usr, var, etc. >> >> - Gunnar
Indeed, thank you both for asking & answering - I've been planning to learn to create .deb packages for a long time. Now that I'm able to open .deb and .ipk packages (didn't know earlier how to do it) the whole thing makes a lot more sense :) Now I still need to find out when the included scripts (preinst prerm postrm) are run and where are $D and $OPT defined. Thanks again :) r -- | risto h. kurppa | risto at kurppa dot fi | http://risto.kurppa.fi _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community