Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> > > > I'd think the info-zip package would have been a better choice since you > > can extract individual elements without uncomressing the whole mess and > > you wouldn't need two layers of archiving. > > > I use the Midnight Commander for extracting single files from a *.deb > file. I could p

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 17, 1997 at 02:53:12PM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package > format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar > archive? So far as I can see: > > CONS: > Cannnot use the Debianized package withou

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell) writes: > > I'd think the info-zip package would have been a better choice since you > can extract individual elements without uncomressing the whole mess and > you wouldn't need two layers of archiving. > I use the Midni

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-18 Thread Paul Seelig
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (" Raymond A. Ingles") writes: > CONS: > Cannnot use the Debianized package without dpkg. > Difficult to "unDebianize". > Actually you can do this without any Debian specific tools. GNU ar should be included in any major Linux distrib

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-17 Thread Leslie Mikesell
> .deb is a very simple ar archive. You can use ar to display its > contents and to extract data.tar.gz which contains the package, > control.tar.gz contains the pre/post inst/rm scripts. > (filenames from memory, might be called slightly different) > > > Using the universally (well, Unixversall

Re: DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-17 Thread Martin Schulze
On Apr 17, Raymond A. Ingles wrote > Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package > format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar > archive? So far as I can see: > > PROS: > ".deb" format allows easy ID of packages that can be installed on > Deb

DEITY TEAM: Minor query re: .deb format

1997-04-17 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
Just out of curiosity, why did Debian decide to use a .deb package format, as opposed to, say, a "debian_control" file inside the .tar archive? So far as I can see: PROS: ".deb" format allows easy ID of packages that can be installed on Debian systems. CONS: Cannnot use the Debianized