From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 3:55:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19A5315397 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:55:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA45033; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:55:13 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: janus.syracuse.net: green owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:55:12 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Unpacking Debian packages on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199907270654.OAA04847@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. > > > Stephen > -- > The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. > > "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce > the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know > this is not true." Robert Wilensky, University of California > > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message