Manish Singh <yosh@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> I don't see a compelling argument to use zip/jar. It's complexity that
> doesn't buy us anything over ar.
$ ar t gimp1.2-print_4.2.5-4_i386.deb
debian-binary
control.tar.gz
data.tar.gz
The Debian dpkg ".deb" package format uses an ar archive with gzip
compressed members. It's very robust, and it's simple to extract
information from any of the members as needed. e.g.
$ ar p gimp1.2-print_4.2.5-4_i386.deb control.tar.gz | tar xfz - ./md5sums
$ cat md5sums
3698d1f4ce3025bc8c0af73aad39c351 usr/lib/gimp/1.2/plug-ins/print
a9e993933c62cf972a07ba60d099a5be usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/html/FAQ.html
0f06e25e158d58be369f6c81c74f350f usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/html/print-color.png
8af9040e743fdea01d048a9625be3f37 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/html/print-main.png
9bcaba3b091edb324a4e3658d3b4c17b usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/html/print-setup.png
bdb27f0b9e600cbf067b34d26b62727b usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/samples/colorbars4.png
cd6014ab378eeebbaee1723b78ef4459 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/samples/colorsweep.png
a9e993933c62cf972a07ba60d099a5be usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/FAQ.html
d41331233e7703ff0c7f365a1f1fa2a4 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/README.Debian
37ae0a31af00c0fa8569104c96927391 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/copyright
9581201d2bf1fc7b5fcf4c3463d79854 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/changelog.gz
7b58392e6bc678907651c89bdb134763 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/README.gz
5fa90d8012eebb8038dd991d46155ff5 usr/share/doc/gimp1.2-print/changelog.Debian.gz
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Roger Leigh
Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 available on public keyservers
