On 2 November 2010 12:40, John Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > packages (DEB is NOT the defacto standard as someone posted).
where did you read that?? "Debian packages are standard Unix ar archives that include two gzipped, bzipped or lzmaed tar archives: one that holds the control information and another that contains the data." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_(file_format) agree, not at all like a (source) tarball. -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2010-11-02 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
