[Klug-general] Problems with Ledger SMB

J D Freeman klug at quixotic.org.uk
Mon Jan 26 18:57:55 UTC 2009


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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 06:54:02PM +0000, Mike Evans wrote:
> A well, that the thing isn't it?  From what I've read on the web the 
> great advantage of .deb over .rpm is that it _is_ a tar file, and that 
> you therefore don't need a special program to build one or look inside 
> one.  Suddenly that's not looking like such a big advantage is it :)

Actually it is an ar file, which is a type of archive, you *CAN* just
use normal unix tools to play around inside of it, however there are
benifits if you use dpkg to process it.

J
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