Re: [TCLUG:12217] Package formats

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Ben Kochie wrote:

> DEB used by debian and debian clones, from what I remember, DEB's are gzip
> compressed CPIO archives  a directory called debian/ stores all the

Dude, your all backwards. :)

RPM is gzip CPIO archives.

DEB is tar/gzip then ar'ed.

:)

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