On Sat, 11 Dec 2004, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 21:51 +0200, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > > > Adam Heath wrote: > > > Well, the plan is to make the dpkg-deb interface more formalized. What I > > > mean, is being able to use it in a filter, with plugging input and output. > > > > > > Ie, multiple input methods: .deb, .rpm, filesystem > > > > > > filter mode: standard tar output > > > > > > output mode: filesystem, .deb, .rpm > > > > > > Repacking and editting then become easy to do. > > > > Is there web page for such plans? I couldn't find anything useful with > > Google. > > > I certainly don't share these plans.
You came on after I last discussed this with anyone from the dpkg team. The above makes it easy to exclude whole heiarachies, ie, /usr/share/doc. It can also be used to alter /lib to /lib64 or /lib32, on the fly, during install.
