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1 | .\" dpkg manual page - deb-split(5) |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright © 2009-2012 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 5 | .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 6 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 7 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 8 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
| 9 | .\" | |
| 10 | .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 11 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 13 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 14 | .\" | |
| 15 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 16 | .\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 17 | . | |
| 18 | .TH deb\-split 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" | |
| 19 | .nh | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | deb\-split \- Debian multi-part binary package format | |
| 22 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 23 | .IB filename .deb | |
| 24 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 25 | The multi-part \fB.deb\fP format is used to split big packages into smaller | |
| 26 | pieces to ease transport in small media. | |
| 27 | .SH FORMAT | |
| 28 | The file is an \fBar\fP archive with a magic value of \fB!<arch>\fP. | |
| 29 | The file names might contain a trailing slash (since dpkg 1.15.6). | |
| 30 | .PP | |
| 31 | The first member is named \fBdebian\-split\fP and contains a series | |
| 32 | of lines, separated by newlines. Currently eight lines are present: | |
| 33 | .IP • 4 | |
| 34 | The format version number, \fB2.1\fP at the time this manual page was | |
| 35 | written. | |
| 36 | .IP • | |
| 37 | The package name. | |
| 38 | .IP • | |
| 39 | The package version. | |
| 40 | .IP • | |
| 41 | The md5sum of the package. | |
| 42 | .IP • | |
| 43 | The total size of the package. | |
| 44 | .IP • | |
| 45 | The maximum part size. | |
| 46 | .IP • | |
| 47 | The current part number, followed by a slash and the total amount of | |
| 48 | parts (as in ‘1/10’). | |
| 49 | .IP • | |
| 50 | The package architecture (since dpkg 1.16.1). | |
| 51 | .PP | |
| 52 | Programs which read multi-part archives should be prepared for the minor | |
| 53 | format version number to be increased and additional lines to be present, | |
| 54 | and should ignore these if this is the case. | |
| 55 | .PP | |
| 56 | If the major format version number has changed, an incompatible change has | |
| 57 | been made and the program should stop. If it has not, then the program should | |
| 58 | be able to safely continue, unless it encounters an unexpected member | |
| 59 | in the archive (except at the end), as described below. | |
| 60 | .PP | |
| 61 | The second, last required member is named \fBdata.\fP\fIN\fP, where \fIN\fP | |
| 62 | denotes the part number. It contains the raw part data. | |
| 63 | .PP | |
| 64 | These members must occur in this exact order. Current implementations | |
| 65 | should ignore any additional members after \fBdata.\fP\fIN\fP. | |
| 66 | Further members may be defined in the future, and (if possible) will be | |
| 67 | placed after these two. | |
| 68 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 69 | .BR deb (5), | |
| 70 | .BR dpkg\-split (1). |