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Re: dpkg/dselect changes needed

Hi Mark --
You asked:
> Is there any documentation as to the internal .deb format?

The .deb files either are or certainly act like 'ar' files at present.
I believe the plan is that this might change, so users are not actually
welcome to know what the file structure is.   In any case, if you issue
something like
  ar -t dpkg_1.4.0.8.deb 
you'll see
  debian-binary
  control.tar.gz
  data.tar.gz

The first file is just a short 1-liner that says what version of the
binary package is being used (at least I think that's what that number is).  
The second contains all the control files: control, *inst, *rm.
The third contains the filesystem that is to be installed.

Sorry if this isn't what you were asking.
Susan Kleinmann


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