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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 18:35:28 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 18:35:28 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 1.22.4.upstream/1.22.4
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/man/deb-old.pod b/man/deb-old.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0acf9a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-old.pod @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +# dpkg manual page - deb-old(5) +# +# Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller +# Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> +# Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> +# +# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. +# +# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +=encoding utf8 + +=head1 NAME + +deb-old - old style Debian binary package format + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +I<filename>B<.deb> + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +The +B<.deb> +format is the Debian binary package file format. +This manual page +describes the +B<old> +format, used before Debian 0.93. +Please see +L<deb(5)> +for details of the new format. + +=head1 FORMAT + +The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by +two concatenated gzipped ustar files. + +The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is +B<0.939000> +for all old-format archives. + +The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving +the length of the first gzipped tarfile. + +Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character. + +The first tarfile contains the control information, as a series of +ordinary files. +The file +B<control> +must be present, as it contains the core control information. + +In some very old archives, the files in the control tarfile may +optionally be in a +B<DEBIAN> +subdirectory. +In that case, the +B<DEBIAN> +subdirectory will be in the control tarfile too, and the control +tarfile will have only files in that directory. +Optionally the +control tarfile may contain an entry for +‘B<.>’, +that is, the current directory. + +The second gzipped tarfile is the filesystem archive, containing +pathnames relative to the root directory of the system to be installed +on. +The pathnames do not have leading slashes. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +L<deb(5)>, +L<deb-control(5)>, +L<dpkg-deb(1)>. |