From 4c04c20356bffe809fe761627e3273bd4afc591d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wichert Akkerman Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 17:03:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add DocBook version of deb(5) manpage --- ChangeLog | 2 +- man/en/deb.5.sgml | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 man/en/deb.5.sgml diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index a0ce7110..0d3b8704 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Sat Apr 13 18:34:09 CEST 2002 Wichert Akkerman * man/en/dselect.8.sgml: DocBook version of dselect manpage * man/en/dselect.cfg.5.sgml: DocBook version of dselect.cfg manpage * man/en/dpkg.cfg.5.sgml: DocBook version of dpkg.cfg manpage - + * man/en/deb.5.sgml: DocBook version of deb manpage Fri Apr 12 18:46:16 CEST 2002 Wichert Akkerman diff --git a/man/en/deb.5.sgml b/man/en/deb.5.sgml new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f75ae4ed --- /dev/null +++ b/man/en/deb.5.sgml @@ -0,0 +1,120 @@ + + + + + deb + 5 + Debian Project + dpkg suite + + + + deb + Debian binary package format + + + + filename.deb + + + + Description + + + The .deb format is the Debian binary package file + format. It is understood by dpkg 0.93.76 and + later, and is generated by default by all versions of + dpkg since 1.2.0 and all i386/ELF versions + since 1.1.1elf. + + + + The format described here is used since Debian 0.93; details of the old + format are described in + deb-old5. + + + + + Format + + + The file is an ar archive with a magic number of + !<arch>. + + + + The first member is named debian-binary and contains + a series of lines, separated by newlines. Currently only one line is + present, the format version number, 2.0 at the time + this manual page was written. Programs which read new-format archives + should be prepared for the minor number to be increased and new lines to + be present, and should ignore these if this is the case. + + + + If the major number has changed, an incompatible change has been made and + the program should stop. If it has not, then the program should be able + to safely continue, unless it encounters an unexpected member in the + archive (except at the end), as described below. + + + + The second required member is named control.tar.gz. + It is a gzipped tar archive containing the package control information, + as a series of plain files, of which the file + control is mandatory and contains the core control + information. Please see the Debian Packaging Manual, + section 2.2 for details of these files. The control tarball + may optionally contain an entry for `.', the current + directory. + + + + The third, last required member is named + data.tar.gz. It contains the filesystem archive as a + gzipped tar archive. + + + + These members must occur in this exact order. Current implementations + should ignore any additional members after + data.tar.gz. Further members may be defined in the + future, and (if possible) will be placed after these three. Any + additional members that may need to be inserted before + data.tar.gz and which should be safely ignored by + older programs, will have names starting with an underscore. + + + + Those new members which won't be able to be safely ignored will be + inserted before data.tar.gz with names starting with + something other than underscores, or will (more likely) cause the major + version number to be increased. + + + + + See Also + + + + deb-old + 5 + , + + + dpkg-deb + 1 + , + + + deb-control + 5 + , + + Debian Packaging Manual + + + + -- 2.39.5