On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:28:20AM -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote: > Lastly, DEBs aren't built on top of CPIO, but gzipped tarballs > instead. I personally find this superior, as CPIO is an obscure > technology, that only RPM is using. Everyone else in the world are > using tarballs as well.
Make that gzipped tarballs inside an ar(1) archive. -- Byron Clark -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
