App idea

[Alexander Toresson]

On 3/22/06, SJM Arts <Stephan.Arts at hva.nl> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Colossus <colossus73 at gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:21 pm
> Subject: Re: App idea
> > On 3/23/06, Oblio <apa.chioara at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > That's what I was thinking - "dpkg -x" should do it.
> > > There is an alternative though - ar + tar-gzip/bzip2.
> >
> > I tried ar -p archive.dev > archive.tar.bz2 but what I get is just
> > data.Can you share more light on the matter, so xarchiver can
> > support also
> > .deb archives ?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Giuseppe
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> Wasn't .deb a .tar.gz file?
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A .deb is an ar archive which contains three files:

debian-binary -- contains version of .deb format
control.tar.gz -- contains package info and scripts that will be run
when installing and removing and some other stuff
data.tar.gz -- contains the actual files that the package will install

Regards, Alexander Toresson