On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:08:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: | > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: | | > > Mostly just some basic copy tools. | > If you need to pick things out of .debs, then you'll need a working | > dpkg. Or ar + tar ( & gzip if memory serves). | | Actually, just tar and cp.
A deb is an ar archive that contains two gzipped tarballs. Thus you
first need ar to extract the tarballs, then gunzip to decompress them,
and then finally tar and cp to do the rest.
| > Correction: Relatively easy, and a relatively large amount of work...
|
| Doesn't sound like it.
Building tweaked binary packages from the source package is really
easy, as long as your tweaks are major rewrites of the app or
something.
-D
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