extracting control info from deb packages

extracting control info from deb packages

[ameer armaly]

Hi all.
I'm looking for a way to take .deb package and get at it's 'debian'
directory containing the control info.   I know you can extract the
control file,  but I'm also looking for the ifle information and complete
information to rebuild it.
Any assistance would be appriciated.



Ameer

Re: extracting control info from deb packages

[Tom Moore]

Hi Ameer,

In order to get the info your looking for you'll need to get the 
source package for the package your wanting to recompile.
You can do this by putting an entry like the following in 
/etc/apt/sources.list
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib 
non-free
Then to fetch the package do something like:
apt-get source package_name
Make sure your in
 an empty directory when you do this because all the 
files that are downloaded will be placed from with in the directory 
that you run the apt-get command.

Tom

On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 11:37:55PM -0400, ameer armaly wrote:
> Hi all.
> I'm looking for a way to take .deb package and get at it's 'debian'
> directory containing the control info.   I know you can extract the
> control file,  but I'm also looking for the ifle information and complete
> information to rebuild it.
> Any assistance would be appriciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Ameer
> 
> 
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