On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 12:35:43AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > The control.tar.gz stays that way for the moment, but the data.tar.gz > might be any format the maintainer seems fit. > The control.tar.gz then contains a file called "how_to_unpack" that > will be used to unpack the data file. Normaly it would be a shell > script that just contains a call to "tar -xz", but "tar -xI" or > anything else would be allowed.
This doesn't match how dpkg actually works --- internally it handles the untaring itself, and pipes that to gzip -dc. Piping it to bzip2 -dc based on the file extension (data.tar.bz2) would be a reasonably convenient change, I imagine; changing how it untar's may not be. YMMV, of course. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. PGP encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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