[BusyBox] format of "dpkg" packages
David Meggy
dmeggy at techsol.ca
Wed Feb 18 21:55:58 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:03, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> is there a concise definition of BB-compatible .deb files understood
> by "dpkg"? is there anything different from the standard format? and
I know I have seem this document on Debian's web pages somewhere. If I
remember correctly it is an ar package, with gzipped internals. You can
extract the components with ar, and take a look at them.
> i'm still unclear on the difference between dpkg and dpkg-deb. thanks.
The man pages are pretty good. dpkg-deb is a helper program to dpkg.
dpkg-deb just does packing and unpacking.
David
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