On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 12:23:22AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That would make things a lot easier under some special circumstances. > > dpkg --fsys-tarfile package.deb | (cd / ; tar xf - )
unfortunately, this will not care about dependencies and will not update the status database. What I do is extracting the tar file, unpacking the control file, removing the pre* scripts, repackaging the file, and then running dpkg --unpack on it. This works fine. I then move the pre* scripts into the dpkg database area manually. This is all done by cross-install, which I use to install the Hurd. The only drawback is that it is very slow, because the package needs tobe extracted twice and rebuild once. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
