APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and Ubuntu) packages

Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by glandium on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @06:54PM (#35461598)

Fun fact, deb packages are just ar files with a funky header, containing a "debian-binary" file containing the deb version (nowadays 2.0), and two compressed tar files, control.tar.$comp and data.tar.$comp, where $comp can be gz, xz, or whatever else is supported.

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by gabereiser on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:51PM (#35462646)

devil in the details. But yes, you are correct. There are archives of archives in the archive. :insert Keanu whoa:

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Re:APT Browse: A web browser for the contents of Debian (and... by tenebrisalietum on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:07AM (#35468486)

I think bookworm is going to support zstd, or at least `tar` will.

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