Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:12 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >> "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 12:34:56PM +0100, Gürkan Sengün wrote: > [snip] >> The transition itself would go completly unadministered. Once dpkg is >> switched to default to a different compression all freshly build >> packages use it and the archive transitions itself over time. > > Because a .deb would "know" whether it is compressed or not, and > dpkg would dynamically determine whether it needed to decompress > or not?
One would use the filename (e.g. data.tar.bz2) or a more elaborate system (add another file to the ar archive stating the compression) or something. The decompression must automaticaly pick whatever is right for a specific deb or the implementation would be inherently flawed. Only building a deb needs to be told or change the default what to use. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]