On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Joerg Sommer wrote: > I think I found a way: dpkg calls /bin/tar to extract the tar archive of > the debian package. So if a replace /bin/tar with a script, that calls > star -symlink, I can unpack the package the same way like in a normal fs. > But this script couldn't only call star, because star doesn't accept the > same parameters like tar. star whants -x -f instead of xf. And you > couldn't determine correctly, how calls the faked /bin/tar.
dpkg has internal tar.
