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# dpkg manual page - deb-old(5)
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#
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# Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller
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# Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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# Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org>
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#
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# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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# (at your option) any later version.
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#
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# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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# GNU General Public License for more details.
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#
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# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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=encoding utf8
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=head1 NAME
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deb-old - old style Debian binary package format
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=head1 SYNOPSIS
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I<filename>B<.deb>
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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The
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B<.deb>
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format is the Debian binary package file format.
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This manual page
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describes the
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B<old>
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format, used before Debian 0.93.
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Please see
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L<deb(5)>
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for details of the new format.
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=head1 FORMAT
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The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by
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two concatenated gzipped ustar files.
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The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is
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B<0.939000>
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for all old-format archives.
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The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving
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the length of the first gzipped tarfile.
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Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character.
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The first tarfile contains the control information, as a series of
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ordinary files.
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The file
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B<control>
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must be present, as it contains the core control information.
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In some very old archives, the files in the control tarfile may
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optionally be in a
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B<DEBIAN>
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subdirectory.
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In that case, the
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B<DEBIAN>
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subdirectory will be in the control tarfile too, and the control
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tarfile will have only files in that directory.
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Optionally the
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control tarfile may contain an entry for
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‘B<.>’,
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that is, the current directory.
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The second gzipped tarfile is the filesystem archive, containing
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pathnames relative to the root directory of the system to be installed
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on.
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The pathnames do not have leading slashes.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<deb(5)>,
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L<deb-control(5)>,
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L<dpkg-deb(1)>.
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