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| author | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2012-06-16 05:25:19 +0200 |
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| committer | Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | 2012-06-30 06:35:23 +0200 |
| commit | 1cfc90c6694d445c815e0fa154e439d1c397a844 (patch) | |
| tree | 2c8d45a08d491ef789a49f3933c950c473d2300d /man/deb.5 | |
| parent | d721133a38aaaca57bbc35f3aada7f6db2eff29d (diff) | |
| download | dpkg-1cfc90c6694d445c815e0fa154e439d1c397a844.tar.gz | |
deb(5): Document in more detail the supported ar archive format
Reported-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/deb.5')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/deb.5 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License .\" along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. . -.TH deb 5 "2011-08-14" "Debian Project" "Debian" +.TH deb 5 "2012-06-16" "Debian Project" "Debian" .SH NAME deb \- Debian binary package format .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -38,7 +38,11 @@ The file is an .B ar archive with a magic value of .BR !<arch> . -The file names might contain a trailing slash. +Only the common \fBar\fP archive format is supported, with no long file +name extensions, but with file names containing an optional trailing +slash, which limits their length to 15 characters (from the 16 allowed). +File sizes are limited to 10 ASCII decimal digits, allowing for up to +approximately 9536.74 MiB member files. .PP The \fBtar\fP archives currently allowed are, the old-style (v7) format, the pre-POSIX ustar format, a subset of the GNU format (only the new |