On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Carlos Z.F. Liu wrote: > When I use "dpkg -x one_pkg_name.deb target_dir" to extract the deb > file, the program always changed the target_dir's permission to > drwxr-xr-x whatever the original permission is.
This is because dpkg -x doesn't use the internal tar, but forks external tar. This could be fixed by: 1) Using internal tar(difficult, it's not meant to be used that way). 2) Pass additional args to the external tar. 3) Wait for dpkg 2.0, which will have a rewritten archive library, that'll make this kind of thing trivial.
