On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 08:25:19PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > I don't need to know which directories > to tar, they're in the dpkg. > If you ever need to insert raw .debs from scratch: ar -x on the .deb yields a control.tar.gz and a data.tar.gz. cp or mv the data.tar.gz to / and unpack it with tar zxvf data.tar.gz and all the package parts drop into place.
I killed a machine at work the other day and managed to get back enough on it to start rebuilding the package database from that. Not fun when even ls has disappeared :) As far as I know, you can't do that with an .rpm Another + for Debian :) Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
