On Tue, 30 May 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Im wondering if your aware of this, and if it is formally specified > > anywhere what the correct behaviour is. > > I'm not sure if there is an official spec for the ar format, the > binutils source doesn't reference one iirc.
OpenBSD has a nice AR format man page. I forget what the name was though. > > Are .debs and .ar files supposed to be functionally equivalent? > > A .deb should be complient to the ar standard. IIRC the 'ar' program has a hard time producing a valid .deb. It is too early in the morning to remember why exactly.. :> Jason
