From: <md...@an...> - 2001-10-18 22:47:59
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You might be interested to know that .deb is actually an ar file with two .tar.gz's in it. So it already is a tarball ;) ar x file.deb tar zxvf data.tar.gz I think the reason why .deb is being used is that a good majority of the cCLan people are Debian users, and Debian people tend to make Debian packages out of their software :) On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 06:54:01PM +0200, Wojciech Sobczuk wrote: > hey, > > why is .deb the official format? > i propose to make .tgz the official package format. i'm sure that c-l-c will > handle that format with ease. the good part is that it's platform independent. > and noone stops us from adding a clcinfo/ directory to each package (in .tgz) > which would contain description/version/etc. files. > > what do You think? > > i'm talking about this because i'm planning to make a freebsd port of c-l-c. > > another thing - i've found that c-l-c is very setup-dependent - it bases on > hardcoded paths, etc. - Fufie says that it's You're responsible for it Peter, > could You contact me and we'd make some modifications to it. > > greetings, > Wojtek > > _______________________________________________ > cclan-list mailing list > ccl...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cclan-list -- ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Matthew Danish email: md...@an... ;; ;; OpenPGP public key available from: 'finger mr...@db...' ;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; |