On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 10:34:14AM +0530, M.Balakrishna Pillai wrote: > can somebody explain (or a pointer to the details of) udeb package and > its difference with deb packages.
It's a micro-.deb for use in the debian-installer project. A .udeb doesn't need to follow Debian policy: in particular, it doesn't contain documentation or man pages, and may have all sorts of hacks to make the installer work. As far as the format goes .debs and .udebs are identical, although I think udpkg supports fewer package relationships and so on than dpkg does, and I'm not sure if it does maintainer scripts. The difference in name is because the Debian archive maintainers weren't happy with .debs in the archive that didn't follow policy, so a different name was chosen to accentuate this and to make it less likely that people would unwittingly install them on real systems. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
