Hi, On Sat, 05 Mar 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: > dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile /dev/stdin seems to work, but it would help to > have some guarantee in the documentation that it will always work, and > dpkg-deb will never seek on the input.
Help for what? What's your use case? I don't really see the advantage that we get to commit to such a restriction. (--fsys-tarfile is mainly used by dpkg itself) OTOH, we just pass the incoming stream to a decompressor like gzip/xz and I doubt they will do any seek. And parsing the few bits of ar information is unlikely to change. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
