Chan On Mon, 6 Feb 2006, Pavel Tsekov wrote: > > deb-support-without-dpkg.patch > > For systems withoput dpkg (almost any non-debian OS). > > It handles .deb files as regular .ar archives, as they are in reality. > > This would be nice addition. Only if we could avoid the 'O' option of gnu > tar... Does anyone know of a way to avoid it ? In any case I think this > patch is worth adding.
This patch although useful has certain drawbacks and I don't think it is ready to replace the use of dpkg as-is. 1) To use the patch one has to install development tools (i.e. binutils). This is not a major problem but it is still annoying - especially for non-developers. 2) "Open=%cd %p#uar" differs in behaviour from "Open=%cd %p#deb" - in my opinion "Open=%cd %p#deb" is better. However, the "deb" script may be modified to use "ar" when it detects that "dpgk" is missing. I think this would be the best thing to do. 3) The View command is highly unportable. Are you willing to improve your patch ? _______________________________________________ Mc-devel mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel