On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:15:45PM -0700, dman wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:08:48PM -0700, Petro wrote: > | On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:57:16PM -0700, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > | > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 05:04:59PM -0700, Petro wrote: > | > > Mostly just some basic copy tools. > | > If you need to pick things out of .debs, then you'll need a working > | > dpkg. Or ar + tar ( & gzip if memory serves). > | Actually, just tar and cp. > A deb is an ar archive that contains two gzipped tarballs. Thus you > first need ar to extract the tarballs, then gunzip to decompress them, > and then finally tar and cp to do the rest.
Yes, and with cp and tar I can either get a file from somewhere else, or copy some files to a location where they will survive a reinstall. > | > Correction: Relatively easy, and a relatively large amount of > work... > | Doesn't sound like it. > Building tweaked binary packages from the source package is really > easy, as long as your tweaks are major rewrites of the app or > something. No, I meant it doesn't sound like a lot of work. -- My last cigarette was roughly 30 days, 13 hours, 56 minutes ago. YHBW -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]