On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 wrote: : Hi all : : I was looking at Debian's WWW site today at the package listings, and : I noticed that for the packages the source is avvaliable in three : different formats, and I was wondering if anyone could tell me what : the differences are in these three formats. : : they are : .dsc : .orig.tar.gz : .diff.gz
No, these aren't different source formats. You need all three files. : I guess the .orig.tar.gz ones are standard tar.gz files but what are the .dsc : and diff.gz formats? *.orig.tar.gz denotes pristine source. *.dsc is the description file ... also contains md5sums and PGP signature. *.diff.gz is the diff file. Use dpkg-source, like so 'dpkg-source -x file.dsc' ... this will unpack the source and apply the diff(s), set up the control file, etc. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
