Respected Sir...
we are the students of mes college of engineering.
As a part of our project, we are developing a different file system for
GNU/hurd. For this we selected 'dpkg' . Then our aim is to modify the dpkg
source files(*.c) that is responsible for exploding the content in the .deb
package while installing. so as a prior step we generated a fully
functional dpkg from sources( dpkg src.deb).
Then after identifying the source files(*.c), our work are the following;
1. creating a directory with the name of the
installing package name using dpkg.
2. change mode into that directory
3. unzip the package under this directory.
After unzip, the files of corresponding package will come under it's own
files in the file system hierarchy. ( eg: let a package name chap1.deb.
Unzip this package under '/chap1.deb', then It's
files, for example abc, bcd will be coming under /bin/abc, /etc/bcd. ).
4. creating a symbolic link to the virtual file
system hierarchy( for example :- ln -sf ./bin/abc /bin/abc)
after doing all this things user viewing each packages under
/packages.deb/packagename ->package own files in file hierarchy system .
(for example :- /packages/debhelper_8.0 -> /usr/bin/share).
But sir, we felt some difficulties for identifying which are source
files of dpkg, which are suitable to make the above modification...so. sir
we need your very valuable information concerning which are .c files that
will be selected for modification?...
we assume that, modifications required for these .c files,
1. (.c) files in src directory of dpkg
2. (.c) files in dpkg-deb directory
3. (.c) files in dpkg-split
sir..if any mistake help us...
looking forward...
yours faithfully...
baneenamol v.p
muhsina a
mumthas a
MES COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INDIA
