On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 05:28:13PM -0700, Petro wrote: | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:45PM -0700, dman wrote: | > 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. | | Yes, and with cp and tar I can either get a file from somewhere | else, or copy some files to a location where they will survive a | reinstall.
Oh, you're looking to salvage something from the wreckage before scrapping it. The comment above was about pulling files out of a .deb with the intent of restoring the "wreckage" rather than scrapping it. Reread the quoted text from Karl. | > | > 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. | | No, I meant it doesn't sound like a lot of work. I didn't get that the first time. -D -- One OS to rule them all, one OS to find them, One OS to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, In the Land of Redmond, where the Shadows lie. GnuPG key : http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/public_key.gpg
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