[Tfug] Following the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in Debian

[Ian McEwen]

Would dpkg -L <package> do what you need? This lists all the files
'owned' by the package (from man page). On an individual package file,
dpkg -c <file> will show contents.

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:04:21PM -0700, Claude Rubinson wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:22:30AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> > What I was really trying to get at is that I don't trust other 
> > sources the way I do the packages in Debian (though they have 
> > been known to not follow the standards at times - but those are 
> > reported as bugs!), Debian Multimedia, and backports. So before 
> > installing a deb from another third party, I would like check to 
> > see if they are following the standards of putting files in the 
> > right place, etc.
> 
> Offhand, I don't know of a tool that lets you peer inside of debs but
> I would think that it should exist.  In any case, a deb file is simply
> an archive file and can be extracted with `ar -x $deb'.  The binaries
> are in the data.tar.gz file.
> 
> Claude
> 
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