"Mathieu Malaterre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 8/6/07, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:34:40PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> I am currently working on integrating debian packaging system in >>> cpack (part of CMake, see cmake.org). Basically cpack used to have a >>> simple tarball system for creating package on *NIX. I simply had to >>> encapsulate this tarball within an 'ar'ball, with a control and a >>> md5sums file (*) >> I recommend reading the deb(5) man page; there may be surprises. > Hum... I don't see anything surprising (debian oldstable). I have been > listing the file in the correct order: > > $ ar -r bla.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz
That will not work. ar(1) is GNU ar on most systems, while dpkg uses
ar-as-in-BSD-ar. The diffeences are subtle, but lead to problems in
some applications.
Marc
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