[all] building ipk packages

Joachim Ott jo.omsl at googlemail.com
Sun May 31 15:41:00 CEST 2009


2009/5/31 Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com>:
> can anyone tell me, if the structure of ipk packages, is the same as
> the structure of deb packages? they look very similar. is it the same
> compression method?

The ipk-file is a simple ar-archive (man ar). You usually find this in an ipk:

control.tar.gz - package info and dependencies
data.tar.gz - program- and data-files
<file with version info>

mc is rather good to sneak around in ipk's too, when you add the
following lines to your ~/.mc/bindings:

# .ipk
regex/\.ipk$
        Open=%cd %p#uar
        View=%view{ascii} ar t %f 2>/dev/null



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