Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:55:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth <shocking@prth.pgs.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unpacking Debian packages on FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907270654090.44493-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <199907270654.OAA04847@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote:
> I'd like to grope around inside a .deb file, which has been created on a
> debian Linux box. Do we have any nifty tools for this, like rpm2cpio?
I would look for something called "alien", which supposedly can convert
packages between formats. you should be able to find it on FreshMeat.
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> Stephen
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