also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.1958 -0300]: > I don't know how the debs are packaged, for all I know they can > wreck my system. Or are are there safety features in place that > prevents that from happening?
dpkg will prevent them from overwriting files by other packages. > I unpacked the deb and didn't find any /DEBIAN/* files. I guess It's > time to start reading the Debian developers manual ;) You want dpkg-deb -e, not -x. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems perl -e 'print "The earth is a disk!\n" if ( "a" == "b" );' (dedicated to nori)
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