yes, sir. While exploding the contents, we will first need to create a directory (containing the package's name) under /package and then create its symlinks under /.
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, 03 Feb 2011, Baneenamol VP wrote: > > We are the students of mes engineering college in India. As a > part > > of the main project "A SIMPLE IMPLEMENTATION OF STOWFS" in the final > > semester,we need your valuable information about PACKAGE MANAGEMENT > PROGRAMS > > such as aptitude,apt-get,dpkg,dselect. > > As an initial step we successfully compiled > > aptitude,apt-get,dpkg,dselect from sources and then generated a fully > > functional binary package management program . Now we are studying the > > source code of each of this package management programs. But we felt some > > difficulties for identifying source(.c)files that is responsible for > > exploading content while installing a package(.deb) using these. > > I'm not sure what you mean with "exploading" but I guess you're looking > for src/archives.c and src/processarc.c in dpkg. > > > To proceed > > well with remaining steps we need your very valuable informations about > > which is the most suitable package management program to modify the > source > > for the success of stowfs . > > I don't know anything about stowfs (except a quick search on the internet > right now) but it's probably something that you want to deal at the dpkg > level. > > At least because I expect you will want to extract somewhere else than / > while still comparing to / to make up the various decisions of what to > install on how to install it. > > Cheers, > -- > Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer > > Follow my Debian News ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.com (English) > ▶ http://RaphaelHertzog.fr (Français) >
