Package: lzma Version: 4.43-14 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi,
I wrote a script to convert a deb package to LZMA format. Its use is very straightforward: $ deb-lzma file1.deb [file2.deb ...] I thought it could be useful for others; consider including it in the package. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.2 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-libre2-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lzma depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1.1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 lzma recommends no packages. lzma suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
#!/bin/bash -e # # Copyright (C) 2009 Robert Millan # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. usage () { cat << EOF >&2 Usage: $0 file1.deb [file2.deb ...] EOF } fix_control () { local dir=$(mktemp -d) trap "rm -rf ${dir}" 0 files=$(tar -C ${dir} -xzvf $1) if grep -q "^Pre-Depends:" ${dir}/control ; then sed -i ${dir}/control -e "s/^Pre-Depends: /&dpkg (>= 1.14.21), /" else echo "Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.21)" >> ${dir}/control fi tar -C ${dir} -czf - ${files} > $1 rm -rf ${dir} } compress_deb () { local dir=$(mktemp -d) trap "rm -rf ${dir}" 0 deb="$(readlink -f $1)" (cd ${dir} && ar -x "${deb}") if test -e ${dir}/data.tar.lzma ; then echo "${deb}: Already LZMA compressed." >&2 elif test -e ${dir}/data.tar.gz ; then gzip -d < ${dir}/data.tar.gz | lzma -9 > ${dir}/data.tar.lzma rm -f ${dir}/data.tar.gz fix_control ${dir}/control.tar.gz rm -f "${deb}" (cd ${dir} && ar -r "${deb}" debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.lzma 2> /dev/null) else echo "${deb}: Only gzipped debs are supported." >&2 fi rm -rf ${dir} } if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then usage exit 1 fi case "$1" in -h|--help) usage exit 0 ;; -*) usage exit 0 ;; esac for i in $@ ; do compress_deb "$i" done exit 0
