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1 | .\" dpkg manual page - deb-old(5) |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright © 1995 Raul Miller | |
| 4 | .\" Copyright © 1995-1996 Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> | |
| 5 | .\" Copyright © 2000 Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> | |
| 6 | .\" | |
| 7 | .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 8 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 9 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 10 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
| 11 | .\" | |
| 12 | .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 13 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 14 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 15 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 16 | .\" | |
| 17 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 18 | .\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 19 | . | |
| 20 | .TH deb\-old 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" | |
| 21 | .nh | |
| 22 | .SH NAME | |
| 23 | deb\-old \- old style Debian binary package format | |
| 24 | . | |
| 25 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 26 | .IB filename .deb | |
| 27 | . | |
| 28 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 29 | The | |
| 30 | .B .deb | |
| 31 | format is the Debian binary package file format. This manual page | |
| 32 | describes the | |
| 33 | .B old | |
| 34 | format, used before Debian 0.93. Please see | |
| 35 | .BR deb (5) | |
| 36 | for details of the new format. | |
| 37 | . | |
| 38 | .SH FORMAT | |
| 39 | The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by | |
| 40 | two concatenated gzipped ustar files. | |
| 41 | .PP | |
| 42 | The first line is the format version number padded to 8 digits, and is | |
| 43 | .B 0.939000 | |
| 44 | for all old-format archives. | |
| 45 | .PP | |
| 46 | The second line is a decimal string (without leading zeroes) giving | |
| 47 | the length of the first gzipped tarfile. | |
| 48 | .PP | |
| 49 | Each of these lines is terminated with a single newline character. | |
| 50 | .PP | |
| 51 | The first tarfile contains the control information, as a series of | |
| 52 | ordinary files. The file | |
| 53 | .B control | |
| 54 | must be present, as it contains the core control information. | |
| 55 | .PP | |
| 56 | In some very old archives, the files in the control tarfile may | |
| 57 | optionally be in a | |
| 58 | .B DEBIAN | |
| 59 | subdirectory. In that case, the | |
| 60 | .B DEBIAN | |
| 61 | subdirectory will be in the control tarfile too, and the control | |
| 62 | tarfile will have only files in that directory. Optionally the | |
| 63 | control tarfile may contain an entry for | |
| 64 | .RB ‘ . ’, | |
| 65 | that is, the current directory. | |
| 66 | .PP | |
| 67 | The second gzipped tarfile is the filesystem archive, containing | |
| 68 | pathnames relative to the root directory of the system to be installed | |
| 69 | on. The pathnames do not have leading slashes. | |
| 70 | . | |
| 71 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 72 | .BR deb (5), | |
| 73 | .BR dpkg\-deb (1), | |
| 74 | .BR deb\-control (5). |